Today was our fractal-iffic grand finale! We started the day with a huge piece of work called Pascal's Sierpinski Triangle. The students had to use addition to fill in the cells of a Pascal's Triangle. This was challenging work, but the students rose to the challenge, and most students surpassed their goal! The really wild thing about Pascal's triangle, is that if you shade in all of the odd numbers, it creates a Sierpinski Triangle! AND, if you add the rows on a diagonal, the totals equal the Fibonacci sequence. 🤯  If students finished this work early, they added fractal and Fibonacci-inspired artwork to a page with the Emily Bronte poem "Fall, Leaves, Fall."

After recess, we celebrated a classmate's birthday with a treat and read the book Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci. It has also been lovely seeing the excellent choices that the students have made for their Choice Time work this year. They are choosing challenging and creative work as well as working toward goals that take multiple weeks to accomplish. Keep it up, 2nd graders!

Our last mind-blowing moment of the day was checking out this video about the Chaos Game. If you haven't heard about this... buckle up! It's incredible, especially after everything the 2nd graders have been studying. They only got to watch the first couple minutes, so it could be fun to watch the whole thing with your 2nd grader.

The next time I will see the 2nd graders is October 28th due to testing next week and no school the following two Fridays.