The Most Perfect Snowman Lesson: I love, love this book, and the lesson is lots of fun! I started off by reading aloud The Most Perfect Snowman by Chris Britt. A story of kindness that is perfect for sparking ideas for your students to throw a little kindness to each other. I modeled how to fill in the snowballs with ideas that the second graders shared with me. Then, when it was their turn, I let them borrow from my chart or add other ideas of their own. I had them pick their favorite one and color it pink so that it stood out among all the other snowballs.
On the next day, I showed my modeled snowman and detail generating template to the students as they began filling in their details and making their own snowmen. Here is the example that I shared with the students.
Then, I modeled how to use the sentence starters plus the information from the detail generating chart and snowman to create a descriptive segment. We also did a quick word referent chart so that they would be able to use them in their writing! With these second graders, I started with one sentence starter and pulled information from my chart to make a sentence. Then, I had them do the same thing but choose their own information. We continued this way for the duration of the lesson.
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Their finished descriptive segments turned out great!