Happy
Tuesday! So I will admit that I was dreading today. I
love teaching kinders, but today was one of our state assessments for
4th and 5th grade - which makes for a walk on egg shells, don't even
think of sneezing kind of day. But God is good, and today was
oodles of fun and smiles!
Let me
start by saying our school has had an infestation on roly polies:
Do you
see all of them?
Well,
after tip toe-ing around the school, we went out for a much needed
recess and my cuties were going crazy over these little critters.
I overheard many of them stating that they were living things and
then described what the roly polies needed to stay alive. This
made my heart do three cartwheels because we have been learning about
the needs of living things. So one precious cutie asked if I
had a jar. I thought about then remembered that I had some old
glad ware bowls in my cabinet.
We all
rushed inside and I had exaclty enough bowls for each student to have
one. Then we made a quick plan about what the roly polies would
need to live. They remembered everything we had learned the
week before, so we ventured back out and enjoyed the critters.
I was
so excited to see their learning transfer from the classroom to real
life AND we got to take home roly polies!
So
everything that led up to this perfectly wonderful, unplanned, state
testing, really dreading day went like this:
Last
Monday, I introduced the idea of living and non-living things by
comparing gummy worms to earthworms. My cuties really came up
with great comparisons and even came up with the needs of the living
worms on their own (after some guidance).
The
next day, we enjoyed an egg hunt. I placed pictures of living
and non-living things in eggs and my cuties hunted for them, then
recorded if the picture was of a living thing or a non-living thing.
You can
have this hunt by clicking the picture below.
Then we
created this living things tree and anchor chart. (The tree
will help us bridge our learning about plants are living things later
this month.)
On each
little card on the tree, my cuties picked a living thing and then
stated what it needs to live.
By the
way, I wasn't sure what roly polies ate, so when we were trying to
decide what to feed them, my cuties suggested we give them some
crackers and hedgehog food - ha ha ha! So that's what we gave
them. They really enjoyed the hedgehog food - yum!
I love the living things tree/anchor chart!!! What a great idea. =)
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CUTE!
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