Monarchs

Check out this picture I just found from Muncie, IN (go Cards!) with a monarch butterfly and a hummingbird in the picture: I found this on the Journey North website! Kristen

Monarch Butterflies

We’ve started our study of Monarch Butterflies again this year and have already talked about the mystery of their yearly journey to Mexico, their life cycle, and a song about them.  We’ve also created our symbolic monarchs to mail to Mexico for the overwintering period of our year.  The children each colored a life sized [...]

New Pictures

Here are some more new pictures from my classroom: Our Meal worms… Meal worms are really easy to keep and you get to watch the life cycle happen over and over again.  I just put corn meal in the bottom and some apple slices and carrots.  You also will need to add some water in [...]

Spring Break

Hi Everyone! We’re enjoying our Spring Break so far and this year, it’s truly going to be Spring like weather!! 80′s by Friday! I don’t have much in the way of new things to share with you, I’ve been working on making some new cards in my free vacation time and you can check them [...]

LWS Check Sheet

Hi Everyone! Only 4 1/2 more days of school left!   I’ll actually be really sad when the last day arrives, but it feels nice to say it now, being on this side of it! I’ve been working on planning my workshop this summer.  We’ve decided to call it, “The Farmer’s Market; Inquiry Based Science [...]

The Grouchy Ladybug

We began our study of insects/bugs by reading The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle.  After taking a picture walk and reading it aloud to the children, we discussed the clocks that are pictured on most of the pages.  The children learned that we would be learning about telling time and addition (with ladybug spots) this [...]

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 [...]

President’s Day #4 and #5

Thursday, we completed the graph that went with our Patten Block Snowflake (PDF page under “P”).   We also read Silly Sally and I showed the children how to act out the story using the Drama Props.  We also did Cut Up Sentences and we really got some of the sentences mixed up!  We also [...]

Monarch Butterfly Power Point

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Hello!

Hi Everyone! I haven’t had time to take pictures in the last two days because we’ve been so busy! Monday, we celebrated Chinese New Year by reading our Big Book for this week called “Little Panda” The Story of Hau Mai.  It came with our Scott Foresman Reading Series that we got last year. We [...]