Butterflies

A Madeira parent brought in 2 caterpillars for our little scientists to observe. 

Of course the students absolutely loved learning about these beautiful insects. 

We made observations, discussed changes, drew their life cycle in our science notebooks, and enjoyed watching the Monarch Butterflies fly as we released them into the school's butterfly garden. 

My students have been begging for pictures on the blog!

Here you go, Scientists: 

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(Mrs. Raymore)

Ponds and Trees Field Trip

The children had a wonderful time at Green Acres!! 

We learned a great deal about pond life.

We also learned more about trees and forest animals while on our hike through the woods.

Check out our trip here:

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Owlets & Talons & Prey, Oh My!

 Last week we did a great owl vocabulary review activity.

I divided the children into cooperative groups. Each group was in charge of one vocabulary word. 

(owlet, talons, nocturnal, prey, predator, and roost) The group had the task of discussing, illustrating, and presenting their word to the rest of the class.

The children did a nice job discussing their word and problem solving to make sure that their illustration gave a clear picture of their word's meaning. 

I recorded their GREAT presentations, but was bummed to discover that the volume is just not loud enough to share. 

Way to go, Kindergarten Friends!

I am so proud of you all! 

We finished up our Owl Fact Books too!

Here are a few of the inside pages:

Labeled Parts of an Owl

Fun Facts: 

Diagrams (What Owls Eat)

Glossary:

 You can check out the post about the Owl Fact Books HERE!

Owl Always Love These Experts

My students and I have really enjoyed becoming owl experts. 

This week we made these adorable scrapbook owls ...

 and then added an owl fact on the back:

  

PLEASE check out my students sharing their new knOWLedge with you! : )

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Owl Research - Fact Books

My kindergarten friends are doing GREAT with their owl research. We have already learned so many new things...

We've been getting a lot of our information from Gail Gibbons' book: Owls.

SO many great facts and text features. 

(we are still adding to this...)

We are recording our new information in our

 Owl Fact Books:

We did a guided drawing for the owl... 

then labeled the body parts together.

Each day we have picked one important fact to write together... then we discuss the different ways that non-fiction writers/illustrators might choose to connect the picture with the text. 

Love all of their creative ideas!

We all {love} these owl books and will continue working on them after Spring Break. 

Mariana: Mrs. Rider, would you fall over if you met Gail Gibbons?? 

Ryan: Yes, but she'd REALLY fall over flat if she met an owl!!!

ha ha ha!!

The owl fact book idea came from Mrs. Jump's blog.

Check out her owl post below:

Spider Experts

My kindergarten friends are spider experts!

We spent the last week or so researching spiders...
 and here are some of the things we discovered:

Parents: ask your child about this!

We learned about different types of spiders and the unique webs that they make. 

We used Google images to look at different orb webs

click on web to see more cool orbs!

We decided to draw our own webs, make spiders, and write spider facts. 

Check them out:

spider art during free choice :)

At the end of our spider study we made this graph:

*spider cards and clip art from Kindergarten Hoppenings

During our spider unit guess what we found creeping through the classroom????

This little guy!

We caught it to make observations... then let him go.

Great work Scientists!!!