In second grade, we continue to build our community and use our collective intelligence to create norms and guidelines to ensure friendship, fun, and learning for all. After reading This Plus That, Life’s Little Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, we created our own equation of 27 + 2 = 1 to illustrate our new community (27 Amazing Students + 2 Dedicated Teachers = 1 Awesome Second Grade Class). We then made our own equations based on our summer reading book, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, written by Kate Messner and illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal. Students were tasked with coming up with an equation that represented something from the book. Examples include smile + dirt = garden, scare + Halloween = pumpkin, basil + salad = yummy, and pink + slimy = worm.
Turns out, second graders + creativity = fun activity!
