Second grade students selected a favorite book to read in February and then built and decorated three-dimensional dioramas that creatively depict a scene from their chapter book. Some 60 dioramas, made out of shoe boxes or large boxes, were on display during March in an elementary hallway and in a classroom.
In addition to the dioramas, the students also had to write a book report and give an oral presentation about their book to their classmates. Some of the books read by students in Mrs. Hockenberry’s 2B class included “Nate the Great and the Stolen Base,” “Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight,” “Cat Kid Comic Club,” and “The Adventures of a South Pole Pig.”
A sampling of books read by students in Mrs. Brossman’s 2A class and Ms. Leach’s 2C class include: “Dinosaurs Before Dark,” “Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights,” “I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912,” “Some Pig,” “The World of Emily Windsnap,” “I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916,” and “Marion’s Got the Butterflies.”
“We want our students to develop a love of reading and learn how to dig deeper into a book to identify the setting, the main characters, and the main events,” said Mrs. Hockenberry. “The students did a really good job creating their dioramas and have learned about a lot of interesting books by hearing the oral presentations and seeing the dioramas their classmates created.”
