Today's science lesson was about how God made animals do amazing things to help them survive. Here we are all flying from the cold North end of our room to the warmer South end.
We were birds only briefly. Most of today was about bears. We got to practice following directions and ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth, fifth) to make these bear paw print snacks. The fifth step was the favorite: eat it!
After reading a non-fiction bear book we wrote about what we learned. These ones say "Bears hibernate", "I learned about hibernation" and "lady bears have two babies at a time".
During quiet reading the room was transformed. A big cave/den was built in the middle of the room. We crawled around eating food before we went in to hibernate. There are 26 bears in this cave.
We played a game in which the bears had to wake up when they heard two rhyming words.
All the happy children and bears right before we went on our bear parade.
Just for fun, we played balloon tag at the end of the day (with first grade). Get set,
GO!
Just one balloon left to pop.
We were birds only briefly. Most of today was about bears. We got to practice following directions and ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth, fifth) to make these bear paw print snacks. The fifth step was the favorite: eat it!
After reading a non-fiction bear book we wrote about what we learned. These ones say "Bears hibernate", "I learned about hibernation" and "lady bears have two babies at a time".
During quiet reading the room was transformed. A big cave/den was built in the middle of the room. We crawled around eating food before we went in to hibernate. There are 26 bears in this cave.
We played a game in which the bears had to wake up when they heard two rhyming words.
All the happy children and bears right before we went on our bear parade.
This group used blocks differently than I've seen before. They built cameras so I took a picture of them taking a picture of me.
Last week was our first experience with watercolor paints. They did a nice job painting flowers. One flower from each student is now part of a class painting called The Kinder Garden, which will be in the silent auction at Fall Festival.
(Sorry. I forgot to rotate it before uploading.)
Of course this class of scientists recorded their observations.
We sang a song as someone climbed up the 'tree trunk' and let their leaves fall down.
After our leaf hunt we sorted and graphed.
Then we acted out a poem that involved throwing the leaves into the air so they could fall down.
Happy Fall!
Here are the brave few:
No one was afraid to spray the hose though!
Class picture:
