Celebrate the Earth!

We had a lot of fun celebrating the Earth with The Lorax. We made this adorable Lorax art from prek and k sharing to wrap up our learning.

 We made dirt cups to celebrate the earth and did a little how to writing. These were so yummy!

We made a class book about what the earth gives us. This idea came from Chalk Talk.

After reading The Lorax we talked about how characters change. We added an entry into our reader's workshop journal about how the Once-ler changed.

We added this song to our poetry journal and wrote about how we could make the earth glitter.

We also did some Lorax math. I got the idea to set up our math problems like this from Kim Adsit.

insects

I can't even believe it is May! Summer is just around the corner. We wrapped up our insect study a few weeks ago. Check out what we've been learning about.

 

 

We illustrated and labeled the butterfly life cycle in our science journals.

 

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and retold the story using the story props and retelling rope.

 

They got their own story props to use to retell and sequence the story. As requested the story props colored and black and white have been included in my insect unit available very soon on TPT.

 

We learned that insects have compound eyes. These activities are from Julie Lee and Deanna Jump.

 

 We illustrated our big science word in our science journals.

 

 

Here are some of the anchor charts we made after learning about each insect.

 

 

Check back soon for this unit!

 

The Zoo!

We loved learning about the zoo! I used Julie Lee and Deanna Jump's zoo unit. I think the zoo animal faces created by Julie are so adorable. The kids loved making them and researching about each animal. The zoo keeper patterns are from my zoo unit.

 

Here are a few of my chit-char messages I wrote.

 

We brainstormed animal adjectives.

The math journal prompts are from Deanna Jump.

Have you started your summer countdown yet? I have!



fun on the farm!

Here is what we have been working on in kindergarten. We just finished up our farm and zoo unit. Here is our double bubble map of would you work on a farm or in the zoo? This idea came from Kim Adsit. The little farmers and zoo keepers are precious! If they wanted to work on a farm and in the zoo they added both a hat and bandanna.

 

At the end of  the unit we graphed our favorite farm animals. We practiced counting by 2's to find out the total.

After we learned about each farm animal we used interactive writing to write about what we learned.

These cute chicks are from Julie Lee's faces on the farm unit. I used them to learn about oviparous animals.

We also illustrated the definition in our science journals.

 

 We compared sheep to pigs. This is from Deanna Jump's fun on the farm unit. The sheep and pigs are also from Julie Lee.

 

the wild west

I'm on spring break and loving it! In March we always learn about our great state. We spend time talking about the state symbols, important people, the capital, cowboys and cowgirls. It is one of my favorite units to teach. Here is a freebie for you. I had the kids roll out a snake using play-doh then measure it with cubes. I followed up with this recording sheet. You can grab it here or just click the picture below.

We read Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett and talked about the story elements using this story map I made on a giant boot.

After reading many books on cowboys we organized all our new leanring with this cowboy tree map.

This was our pocket chart activity for the week. We spent time learning about cowboy clothing.

 For word work we worked on making Texas words with magnetic letters and stamps.

 We made many western themed class books that we have been reading in class.

We learned what cowboys wear and why. This is our circle map of cowboy clothing.

We learned about Texas regions and the types of landforms in each region.

 

 

I added many updates to my wild west unit. Go check it out here.