Our Poetry PBL is complete!

"How can we, as 2nd graders, collaborate to compile a book of poetry to share with an audience?"

This was the Driving Question for our students for the past few weeks.

They generated questions that they needed to find answers to in order to create a book of poetry.

Each team member had a job:  Tech Head, Recorder/Editor, Time/Supply Manager, and Graphic Designer.

Teams researched 3 different types of poetry:  haiku, diamante, and cinquain.  Then, each group chose their favorite, brainstormed topics to write about, and began writing.

After editing, Tech Heads typed the poems in Microsoft Word while the rest of the team worked with the Graphic Designers to create an illustration for their poem.

I am very proud of their end result:



Thanks to all who were able to join us for our awesome Poetry Celebration and Valentine's Day party on Friday!  I know you are all very proud of your children.  They are pretty amazing kids.

Sock Puppets!

I accidentally came across this App on our iPads, and it is my new favorite!!  (Thanks to Rozena, who had me searching out Apps we could use to work on our writing!)

We had so much fun creating our own Sock Puppet shows about Needs vs. Wants on our iPads, and we even taught our Kinder Buddies how to do it!

In this project, each student independently chose his/her sock puppet characters, designed their "set" and performed the dialogue between both characters.  They only have 30 seconds to record, and if they mess up, they have to start all over, so you can imagine it can be a time-consuming process!  :)

I am including all the puppet shows that were finished; if your child's doesn't appear, please tell him/her to finish it during Daily 5 so I can upload it!

Enjoy it!

Madhura:


Mary Grace:


Sriya:


Siddarth:


Nathan:


Ryan:


Rozena:


Sydney:


Riley:


Joseph:


Kaleb:


Alex:

Showing What We Know With the iPad: Regrouping

A few weeks ago, we practiced our addition with regrouping by explaining the steps involved.   The students were asked to demonstrate their knowledge on the iPad App: Show Me, which records your voice and your drawing simultaneously.  I think you will be impressed to see the students' hard work and their awesome explanations!

NOTE: Not all students finished this activity or may have been absent...if they would like to create a video, tell them to remind me when they have free time.  I would love for every student to show off their "Show Me!" :)

Click the student's name to view their Show Me video...(In no particular order:)

Aryon

Sydney

Madhura

Mika

Ryan

Conner

Nathan

Kaleb

Jordan

Kaalyn

Sriya

Mary Grace

Mira

Alex

Riley