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End of the Year' TPT Pack
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It's Susanna here from Whimsy Workshop Teaching, and I have some fun drawing ideas to share with you today. I teach a multi-age class, so I'm used to finding ways to differentiate for students whose ability ranges from Kindergarten to Grade 3. When possible, this is accomplished by open-ended projects. Other times, I simply make different versions of the same activity so that all students are well supported. (Sometimes I will put those different versions out and let them choose, which is an interesting study in student confidence and attitude!) I also try to integrate subject areas whenever possible, mixing writing and math together, or even social studies and Physical Education! The two that most naturally seem to go together for me are writing and art. Since my students love directed drawing, I've mixed some with writing prompts to go along with them - everything is right there on the page.
If you'd like to try this yourself, there's a FREE set of printables over on my blog! {click HERE}
You can also grab the whole BUNDLE - perfect for literacy centers, Home Writing, sub tubs, or just fun art lessons!
Hello Friends! This is Christina, from Miss DeCarbo's Sugar and Spice. Today on my blog, I shared a super fun science experiment and writing activity that I did with my first graders last week for Earth Day! :)
I used water, vegetable oil, and feathers to create a horrible OIL SPILL that took place in my classroom!
My little scientists had to work in small groups to discuss, devise, and write a plan of action for this terrible, environmental disaster!
They worked together to try to remove the oil, clean up the water, and save the wildlife. They soon discovered this was a DIFFICULT task!
Afterwards, my students summarized what they learned and wrote about what they wanted others to know and learn after their own experience with an unclean planet.
Read ALL of the details, check out even MORE pictures of this experiment, and learn the steps I took for this activity on my blog today by clicking HERE.
*Disclosure* No wildlife was injured or harmed in the making of this experiment. ;)
Hi Friends.... Anna here from Simply Skilled in Second. It's HERE... It's HERE... SPRING has arrived! I don't know about you guys...but our winter here in the northeast was B.R.U.T.A.L.! Truly! Brutal. It felt like spring would never arrive. But it has...and what better way to celebrate then to talk about Planting!
Every year in my classroom as part of our Science curriculum, we plant sunflowers. I love sunflowers! But the only problem is that we never get to see our sunflowers actually bloom because school is over by that time :( However, year after year, I have students coming back to class showing me pictures of their sunflowers and how they replanted them at their homes and they grew taller than them! I love when they come back and tell me that :)
Here is an adorable video that I have shown my kiddos called Sid the Seed.. They love it!
I also read a few big books to my class on seeds and planting. Then we usually get to work.
The last few years, we have completed my Plants Flip Flap Book which they really loved!
They write about plants and complete the Life Cycle of the Sunflower.
If you want to check it out in my TPT Shop, just click the image below...
This year, I have decided to do something a little different and change it up a bit... I always change things up from year to year so that I don't get bored with the same projects year after year.
This year we are going to complete my Plants Tab-Its Booklet for our Science Interactive Notebooks!
Click the image below to check it out in my TPT Shop.
We will complete a graphic organizer on what Plants Have, Are, and Need. They will focus on some Vocabulary development, label a diagram of a plant and write what each part of the plant does, they will label the life cycle of a flower, and the last few pages of my Tab-It booklet is their plant journal where they will write a plant observation looking at their newly planted sunflower. They will draw a picture, describe the plant and the stage the plant is in, measure the plant's height, and draw a picture of it. This Tab-It booklet has EVERYTHING my kiddos need to learn and complete for our plant unit. I literally can't wait to start!!!!
Anywhooo...I hope you are all warming up for those of you that live where cold winters are brutal and for those of you that live in warm weather climates year round... I am coming to live with you! :)
