Day and Night Fun!

This whole month at school has been all about day and night and seasons.  Take a look at some of our fun!

This is our sequence of day and night activity we did after reading my book Little Owl's Journey from Day to Night.

We also made moon paintings after a discussion about objects in the sky.  We recorded our learning about objects in the sky in our Day and Night Journals in my What a Sky! unit.

With this new science topic taking over our classroom, I transformed our dramatic play center into a space station.

We also made our mini-lessons at Daily 5 space themed.  We went on a sight word hunt with telescopes from Oriental Trading.  The sight words were written on stars, so we called it Star Search.

Here is the freebie recording sheet for you!

For our understanding of seasons, we learned this chat:

Winter, spring, summer, fall

Winter, spring, summer, fall

There are 4 seasons in all

Winter, spring, summer, fall

Then we made this diorama throughout the week, with completing one season a day about how a tree changes in each season.

 

Here is another season tree activity.

A lot of these ideas are in my What a Sky! unit.  Check it out by clicking below.

More Seasons Activities

Today we continued our seasons study.  We started out by reviewing the seasons and completing a signs of the seasons sort.

I placed a bunch of seasonal manipulatives into baggies and allowed students to sort the items into the four seasons. 

We also created these little seasons hats.  They glued the picture that represented each season in order to make seasons pattern hat.

Click on the picture above to download the pieces to make your own hat.

We also created our Season's Science Wall together.  For each unit we study, we add things to the wall that help us understand our unit better.  Here is a picture of some of the things we added today.

After we finish studying a topic, I remove the items that we placed on the wall so that it can have space for all the new materials we will add next.

Seasons

This week we started learning about seasons in Science.  I was so excited to start this unit - then our winter here in Austin, Texas, made it really hard to teach about winter.  It is currently super sunny and 71 degrees in our marvelous city.  Not really the best temperatures to teach about winter.  Sigh...


One activity we did to help us understand that the seasons are in a pattern was I chose two different students to be in the middle of our circle.  They each wore one of these hats:

I made the hats by taping a sun and an earth to a sentence strip.  Then the student wearing the earth hat rotated around the sun while the rest of the students chanted "winter, spring, summer, fall"  a few times.  


We also read this book

 

then created our Tree for All Seasons book.  I got this idea from Mrs. Saylor's blog.

Click on the picture above to print the cover.

You can print the poems on Mrs. Saylor's blog.

We are continuing the seasons this week.  I will post more pictures soon.