Weather Books

I'm a little/lot late in blogging about this, but I still had to share. In September, my 2nd graders and I did an informational text study on weather. We focused on clouds, sunlight, rain, and snow.  We read informational books (there are some great weather informational books written by Erin Edison), watched clips on Brainpop Jr., and shared background knowledge.  After learning about the type of weather, we created a circle map with facts we learned. Then, we turned the circle maps into an informational book about weather that we wrote together. Since we've been studying informational text and text features we also included a table of contents and headings into our books. Here's a ton of pictures of our work.

Here are our circle maps that we created with the information we learned from the books and the Brainpop videos.

 

Here the students are working on their own circle maps of information using the information learned and the information we put on our class circle map.

 

 

Here are the finished products! They are turned out great and the kids loved how they were able to write their own book about weather that looked just like the ones we read in class.