Live Bald Eagle Cam

We are busy working on our Non-Fiction unit in Reader's and Writer's Workshop. 

The students have been doing an awesome job gathering information, finding and practicing using non-fiction text features, and sharing interesting facts, finds, and resources with their friends.

We've loved observing this eagle. 
Kindergarten friends...
there may be another egg! :)

Click the Eagle to check out the live feed:

Our Tree Named HAPPY! :)

We will be studying trees throughout the year in Science. 

We have read many great fiction and non-fiction tree books, including this one...

We decided we needed a tree like Steve...

We walked around the school grounds until we found "our tree". The students all agreed that this tree would be a great one to observe throughout the year, learn about, read under, and make special memories with ... just like Steve.

The students decided to name our tree Happy! :):):)

 We will draw our tree throughout the year in our science notebooks.

We also did bark rubbings ...

and drew the tree again, learned about the different parts and labeled them. 

Looking forward to learning more about happy! :)

Scientists at Work

My little scientists have been hard at work...
This week we read these great books:

We also had a great discussion answering the question: What is Science? 

We drew our thoughts and ideas about science in our new science notebooks.

We also learned about different types of scientists and shared what type of scientists we would be.

  We went out to our school's Butterfly Garden to use our senses to make observations.

We also explored a variety of science tools. 

The students LOVED using their senses to make observations about an apple. 

Scientists,

Scott and Madilynn found this praying mantis in our yard this weekend. They used their senses (eyes and hands) and some tools (magnifying glass and ruler) to make observations about this cool insect. 
Did you find anything cool to observe this weekend?
Love,