After mastering their unit on graphs, second grade students on the Swain Campus put these new math skills to the test when they open their very own donut shop! When students return from Winter Break, they begin their graphing unit learning about bar graphs, line plots, picture graphs, tally charts, and a table graphs. Students learn how to interpret data and create new graphs. Second grade teachers love creating an environment where students can be hands on with their learning. To that accord, at the end of their graphing unit, the classrooms are transformed into two donut shops. Students receive hats, name tags, and tickets to become official donut shop owners! 

When the donut shops open, each student starts with an empty box of donuts. To fill this box of donuts, students travel to ten different stations in the donut shops and complete graphing activities. Each station tests their skills of different graphs and different questions. When the students are confident they have the correct answers, teachers will check their work and reward correct answers with one donut for their box of donuts. 

What happens when their box is filled with all 10 donuts?! They are officially running a successful shop!  Of course the day ends with certificates of becoming official owners and a sweet treat of some Mary Ann donuts! 

This day is filled with joy, laughter, thinking, hard workers, and of course…happy bellies!