Patterns, apples, and BUGZzzzzz (gross)..
Our students have been extremely fascinated by insects and little creatures outside so we thought why not get some pets of our own! Check out our little friends...
Can you guess what kind of little critter this is? One student guessed grasshopper...
Pictures, book talks, and magnifying glasses are really fun ways to help us explore these little critters habitat.
Sorting bugs according to their parts was also fun.
A great way to apply what we learned. By the way, seeing the excitement in your children's eyes as they learned to count legs, describe anntanea as shorter or longer, explain wing length, talk aboutbug features, and explore is a wonderful reminder of why we do what we do. Our job isn't a job to us we just love to see this learning going on and we love learning with all of them.
We learned about patterning this week and we decided to use apples, magnets, beads, and other classroom manipulatives to show what we learned.
We have also started a fun Apple inquiry with various liquids and air. In a small lesson we first explored what each liquid with apple in it smelled like, some brave volunteers used their sense of taste to taste the liquids and describe them, and others used their sense of touch. We had many neat observations. Our liquids turned out to be vinegar, water, and oil and our empty jar was air (which we also tried tasting, sniffing , and touching all around us). We recorded pictures of what the apples look like on day one and we will compare them in a week.
Take a look at some of our descriptions on the apple jars.
We finished creating our calendar! Everyone helped to write the numbers and words. The challenge was fun.
Our reading corner is a fun place to check out books.
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