How to Make a PB & J

The second graders at our school spend a portion of the year learning to do procedural writing (aka How-To Writing).  I had been looking for a way to spice up this writing project this year.  Someone in the blogging world pointed me in this direction:

Created by Tangled Up in Teaching

One of the first writing projects we attempted was How to Make a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich.  Through a lot of modeling, modeling, modeling, we finally came up with these:

 

Student # 1 – an up-close picture of the sandwich

 

 

The peanut butter sandwiches were created using the template in the pack mentioned above with a small modification.  The example in the template showed jelly on top of peanut butter on top of bread.  The jelly had a smiley face on it.  My students thought it would make more sense to have two slices of bread so we did that and I gave them a title template to put on their sandwich.  We also used a brad to attach the sandwich pieces so you could still open the sandwich and see what was inside.  Most of my students are finishing the first draft of their How to Carve a Pumpkin piece.  If I get some volunteer help this week they will get a chance to make their pumpkins to go with their writing pieces.