Well, we are at it againโฆ working on cause and effect! If you remember my post from a few weeks ago, ย then you know that cause and effect is the โAchilles heelโ of ย my second graders. So, I figured another week with working on this skill was a good idea.
At the beginning of the week, we used my cause and effect interactive anchor chart to explore the concept in a visual way.
On yellow stickies, I wrote one cause for each cause cloud. Then, I sent my kiddos to work with three red stickies to write three matching โeffectsโ.
Later in the week, we used the story, Gooseโs Story (which I cry EVERY time we read!) ย as a mentor for finding this relationship between events in text. ย After reading the story and discussing the key events, we made a step book that highlighted the events.
(Hereโs my sample)
On each step in the book, the studentโs wrote one cause event and the effect.
On the inside, students illustrated the events.
Can you believe that Valentineโs Day is THIS Friday? I know! #wheredoesthetimego
We made this sweet hand-print heart earlier this week.
ย I love doing this classic as a parent gift for Valentineโs Day! It is so simple and sweet! Just paint and press the kiddosโ hands and frame with the the left over paper of a heart print out. On the front, I attach this sweet heart print poem and on the back, I have the kiddos write the poem in their โnicest and neatestโ handwriting. (Hereโs the sheet I use!)
ย Laminate and Wah-Lah! Instant sweetness!
Later this week, we will be flexing our writing muscles and working on comparing two candy centered holidays, Valentineโs Day and Halloween.
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After comparing the two holidays, students will choose one holiday to write an opinion piece as to why that holiday is the sweetest! Valentineโs VS. Halloween! May the best holiday win! You can grab this fun writing activity in my Valentineโs Day unit on TpT.
WHEW! Now it is time for B.E.D! Did you see that there is a full moon on Valentineโs Day? Yeahโฆ I was feeling littleโฆahmmmโฆ sick tooโฆ ๐
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