Arts in Autumn and Hands-On Math

Mrs. Scrivner's Stars have been rocking since August! We have been working hard and learning lots through home projects, hands-on learning, and arts integrated lessons. As October came to an end, we celebrated Red Ribbon Week with fun dress-up days.

Wacky Hair Day

Crazy Socks Day

October 31st Superhero and Mustache Day

We also had a home project this month. Students created a timeline of their lives to coincide with the Reading Street story Abraham Lincoln by Delores Malone. Students were given the assignment and then assessed according to a teacher-created rubric. Snag the rubric for FREE from my Teachers Pay Teachers shop. We also began comparing and contrasting holidays and traditions in the United States with holidays and traditions in other countries. We learned about Dia de los Muertos through Jasmine Orellano's wonderful powerpoint. Next, we compared/contrasted using Open Wide the World's freebie here on TPT. This lesson was enriched through visual arts as the students planned out their own calaveras skull masks and designed them using glitter, feathers, beads, flowers, markers, and more!

During this semester, our school began a partnership with artists at the Huntsville Ballet Company . From October to November, AAA 2nd grade was fortunate enough to have dance instructor Susan Kelly collaborate, model, and teach an ELA lesson through movement and dance once a week. The students and I have learned so much through this partnership. Here are a few sights from the lessons. 

     

Finding Beat and Rhythm while Mirroring Partners

Creating Story Plot Vignettes Together

We've also been learning how to play our violins in Strings class with Ms. Peck.

Lastly, here are a few pics from some of our hands-on cooperative learning math lessons, a reader's theater with song, and candid shots from the classroom. 

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