Grasslands

Last week we talked about grasslands!

Charles came in and talked to us all about what we would find there and why they are important. He also showed us some really neat animal furs and a LIVE SNAKE!

Charles had lots of grassland grass for us to weave through paper to make our own craft. It was hard to get started but they got the hang of it!

                  

Our final project was making a big grasslands picture. We talked a lot about sunflowers during the week as well as animals and plants found n the grasslands. The students put it all together into one big poster and they turned out beautiful!

 

 

Use this fun video to see if your child can say the sight words!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-UlyFDIh_A&feature=youtu.be

Easter Activities

Today we devoted our day to everything Easter!! We started the morning by reading the book Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco. Based off the story, the students did a writer’s workshop writing about what they would leave in an egg for someone to find that would make them feel special.  Then we read Jan Brett’s The Easter Egg and designed and painted an Easter egg of our own!

Here we are designing it with crayons…

 

And now our paints….

 

In the afternoon we read The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Then we colored our own rabbits and added carrots. We made our picture into a math problem by counting the carrots we put onto each side of our rabbit and adding them all together!

3 + 3 = 6

And finally, we had an Easter egg hunt in our classroom! The students were able to find two eggs and take them back to their seat and start sorting them by color. After they sorted we graphed how many we had and made all sorts of patterns! After all their hard work they finally got to eat them

 

 

 

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you have a wonderful break. See you next week!

Rockin’ Rainforest

Our rainforest unit was so interesting! We learned about the four layers of the rainforest and what kinds of things we would find in each layer. 

 

The kids also made their own trees and added the details they would find in the rainforest.

 

          

They students did a LOT of writing about the rainforest. One of our writings was about our favorite animal in the rainforest. Another one was about all of the things we would see in the rainforest if we were there. The kids are continuing to do a great job writing full sentences and getting their thoughts down in their writing!

We took a day to make animals of the rainforest and put them all together in a rainforest mural! We had to make sure to put the animals in the correct layers in which they lived.