Exploring Second Grade

This summer has been so exciting! I'm teaching a 5th grade summer enrichment class and I feel like I've been learning just as much as the kids! We are doing a novel study with the book "Wonder". Today, I had my kids write an opinion essay about a character from the novel we're reading this summer, Wonder. Kinda boring, right? I thought that it would be more engaging for them to then take their writing and turn it into a script and video! My kids produced two very different yet equally wonderful videos with very little instruction from me! I showed them the basics of video editing on iMovie on the iPads and told them to explore and have fun!

Finished products:

https://youtu.be/ptFhmR8TEm0

https://youtu.be/lJlOPeHKxJI

I can't wait to incorporate some of the new strategies into class in the fall with my second graders!