Guest Reader!

Thank you to the super cool and full of fun Mr. Laurent for joining our classroom on Friday afternoon! He read to the students Walter the Farting Dog! You can imagine the giggles, and some red faces, from the crowd as each page was turned! The text throughout the story left the students will many eye popping and jaw dropping responses, while also leaving their attention utterly engaged in the story.

Thank you Mr. Laurent for giving us many much needed laughs and leaving our classroom with many connections to the text :) They loved it!

 

A Piece of the Pie

After concluding graphing with our end of the unit Fruit Loop project, I decided to add in one more graph...Pie Graphs! We had used pie graphs as a tool to gather information to read from, however, we did not have the chance to conduct our own surveys, produce a tally chart and then make our very own pie chart from the results. So we squeezed in the time, and had fun while doing it! 

We did one as a class to use as a model and example.

What is your favorite subject in the classroom?

After we surveyed all students, and teacher, we all made an example pie graph together using the results. Not only did they fill in the pie, they were also responsible for creating a title for their graph and to also input a key to identify the different areas of their pie graph.

Next step...students produced their own survey question and found results by asking their peers a questions with answers based on their different categories. Then results were taken back to put into a pie graph to then analyze and interpret the data found. Not only did they do the work well, but the math conversation they were having with their peers was awesome! They were able to quickly find the range of data, find the difference between two categories, all while using their pie graph. On top of the math, students, and especially myself, learned a lot about the people in our classroom!

What is your favorite thing to do in the summer?

 What is your favorite season?

 What is your favorite sport?

What is your favorite holiday?

Guest Reader!

Thank you to another awesome parent, Mrs. Hautala, for surprising our classroom with another fantastic book!! Our fun Friday was not only started with Music class, but students returned back to the classroom to enjoy The Day the Crayons Quit with our first guest reader of the day! We had the pleasure of reading The Day the Crayons Came Home earlier in the year. Some students had not heard how it all began with the crayons...so this was a great treat!

Thank you Mrs. Hautala!

Thank You!!

A BIG Thank you to the Beers family for purchasing our classroom print from the Black Star evening event!! We greatly appreciate your donation back to Westwoods towards literacy!

Guest Reader!

Thank you to the inspiring Mrs. O'Neill for the after lunch and recess cool down of a good book! She read to the class Lima Beans Would Be Illegal! The book contained small quotes from people of all ages, stating their opinion on what they would like "in a perfect world."

In a perfect world trash would take itself out to the curb.

 It was a very engaging and popular read of our classroom. Mrs. O'Neill's pick even inspired our classroom to use as a writing prompt since we are in the wrap up stages of persuasive writing.

What would you want in a perfect world?

Thanks you Mrs. O'Neill for introducing such a cool read!

Fruit Loopers!

As we approach the end of our graphing unit students were able to take all they have learned and create a Fruit Loop Graphing project! Throw a little sugar and glue into math and the kids already love it!

All students partnered up and received a bucket of Fruit Loops! With the loops, they categorized their data into six different colors. They then counted how many loops were in each group rounded and estimated an amount then graphed their results into a bar graph. 

Using the bar graph they were able to read and interpret the data by:

Identifying which had more and less 

Calculating the difference between different groups

Calculating the sum of one or more groups together

Taking the extra challenge by creating real world story problems with the data (addition, subtraction, multiplication OR division)

This was a two day project that the students engaged in. As they achieved their second grade learning goals and beyond for our graphing unit, they were able to show their achievements and mastery through conversation, written and visual work. 

Last step was to take the Fruit Loops and create a line plot with each piece. The willpower of not eating the loops as they were placed on their graph was impressive!

They were working hard and best of all working together to talk about the efficient way to create the line plot so all data would be presented accurately.

Very nice job!!