Second Grade Happenings

Book Projects

Your child is responsible for completing each book project on this list. Each month your child will choose a different project and complete it based on a chapter book s/he read that month. It is important that you allow the student to do most of the work and you merely facilitate the process (not do it for him/her)! I will only send this sheet home once, so please hold on to it. You can also find this information on the blog.

Here are the book project ideas!

1. Book Jacket
Design a book jacket for the book chosen. Have your child be creative so that it is not a direct copy of what is already on the book jacket.

Book jackets normally include the following:

• Cover, picture showing an important scene, main characters, or theme of the book
• Story synopsis
• Brief author information
• Book review quotes

2. Character Report
Write a report about a favorite character including:

• The role of the character played
• The main idea of the story and how the character was involved with it
• A description of the character, a drawing of the character
  

3. Diorama
Choose an important event from the book. Then create a three dimensional scene of this event in a diorama form. The scene can either be created in a box with one full side exposed or in a box with a viewing hole in one side.

4. Library Poster
Make a book poster for the class library. The poster should include:

• Title and author of the book
• An important scene or main character(s) from the book
  

5. Movie Poster

Imagine what the book would be like in a movie form. Your child can create a movie poster in the same fashion as other movie posters they see on display at the local theater.

Book Project Due Dates:

October 31^st

November 21^st

January 30^th

February 27^th

March 20^th

Have Fun!!

October Home Journal

1. The best present I ever got was...

2. My favorite Halloween costume was... because... it looked like... I got it from... tell lots of details about the costume and why it was your favorite.

3. Fall looks like, smells like, feels like, sounds like, and tastes like...

Family Project