Community Culmination Project: Creating Our Own Communities!

We have been working on the three different types of community (urban, suburban, and rural) and also been focusing on map skills. Today our kiddos get to unveil their own communities created on giant bulletin board paper! They included a compass, key/legend, a type of community, title, and detailed pictures! We are so excited!!

Bossy R

I love using this awesome idea packet from Laura Davis at tattlingtotheteacher@blogspot.com. We read a poem, did a write around the room with bossy r words and then I gave each child a word that they got to use to create a picture of its meaning! I have some amazing artists in my room! See pictures below: 

FRANKENFUN!!!

This week we have had some Frankenstein fun! I used a packet created by Cara Carroll at http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com. We focused on the parts of a story and structure including beginning, middle, and end for the story, Click, Clack, Boo by Dorren Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Then today we talked about using temporal words in our writing like first, next, then, last while we made Frankenpudding! The kids loved it! Pictures below!

Fall Party!

We had a wonderful time at our fall party last week! I am so thankful for all the snacks and games provided by wonderful parents. This kids had a blast! (Toilet paper mummies pictured above!)

Butterfly Hatching and Release

The kids were so excited to come in one day to find our cocoon had hatched and a beautiful butterfly had appearing in its place! We let him go at recess! :)

Eddie the Entomologist!!

Last Thursday we had a very special visitor! Eddie the Entomologist sent us letters throughout our unit on insects to help us learn about bugs. Thursday he came to personally deliver our official entomologist badges. He read Waiting for Wings, by Lois Ehlert and answered student questions. The kids were SOOOO excited! Thanks Eddie!!

Botanica Field Trip!

It was a beautiful day for adventure. We learned all about monarch butterflies. My students talked about migration and can even tell a male from a female butterfly! What an awesome learning experience!

Explorers!!

After Botanica we began getting up close and personal with our bugs as we caught insects for our upcoming bug museum.