Leaves 2009

This week, we are learning about leaves and trees:

I copied several pages from the back of Leaves!, Leaves!, Leaves! and Leaf Man and the children compared the leaves they found on our leaf walk to them and tried to identify what kinds of trees we have on our school campus.
 
The Alphabet Chart that you see [...]

Bats Day #1 and Day #2 2009

This week, we’ve been learning all about BATS!!  We have several students in our school who do not celebrate the fall holidays, so I always try to keep things neutral and not offend anyone.  In October, we learn about bats, spiders, pumpkins, and leaves, all kind of tying into the holidays, yet we do not [...]

Pumpkins Day #1-#3

We’ve been learning and reading all about Pumpkins this week…even though I was out 2 days this week (my son was sick).  We started off the week by taking a picture walk through the Big Book Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington.  Then the children heard the story read aloud.  On the second day, the children [...]

The Wheels on the Bus Day #1

This week our big book is titled, The Wheels on the Bus”.  Today we took a picture walk through the story and then I read it aloud to the children. 

We also started a Predictable Chart titled, The bus…”
During our Science time, we created a KWL chart about busses.  We listed things we knew about busses [...]

Monkeys

Hi Everyone!
I’ve been too busy to post regularly, what with the end of the school year and the start of the summer of learning for me!   Here’s what June looks like for me (already–and it’s not even here yet!!)  June 1-5 and 10-12 Science Academy (I’m returning for a 3rd year) June 8th [...]

Seeds

We are reading a big book this week titled “Seeds”.

Because there are a few students who will be leaving early this week to head out on Spring Break, we did not do a Predictable Chart, however we did do several neat Inquiry Based things in Science.  I like to begin almost all my themes/units with [...]