Today Mrs. Abernathy, the librarian at Chamberlayne Elementary, and I teamed up to work with 2nd graders. We were able to combine multiple SOL topics into ONE 30 minute lesson!
First, students broke up into groups of 4 and got to sort a pile of books into any 3 categories/attributes of their choice. (Science 2.1)
All the students came up with some interesting ways to sort their books!
Everyone had fun listening to each group share out their idea!
Perhaps our favorite sorting attributes came from this group. Students sorted by the categories fiction, nonfiction and BOTH. (Reading 2.8+2.9) Their “both” group included Magic Tree House books that do have an element of each! So clever 
Next, students partnered up within their group of four and signed into one laptop. We used Excel to graph the number of books that fit in each category. (Math 2.17) Since we only had a small amount of time for the lesson, I created {THIS} Excel template that the students accessed through the Student Server. All they had to do was type in the names of their three categories and add the amount for each. The graph was generated automatically!
