Keep your cool

Here is our traveling penguin reminding students to keep cool at school. 

This is the second grade one.

The penguin moves from room to room and the students 

are very excited to have them in their rooms!

It would be awesome if each grade had one as well.

Not necessarily a penguin though.

Our school follows a school wide program where we are

SAFE*RESPONSIBLE*RESPECTFUL

What am I?

I found these adorable books in a second grade classroom.

(Above the outside.)

(Below the inside.)

Moving West

I visited a second grade class and we created this wagon web. 

I made mine on the smart board and they recreated it 

in their writing notebooks.

They had followed a web quest to get the information.  I think I might try this even with older children.

They had a packet to fill out information and then used it to write paragraphs.

Inventors and Inventions

Here are some of the books we used for our unit.

I wrote names on sentence strips along with what they invented.

I had 2-5 children record in their science log.

I had the K-1 children draw their favorite invention. I wrote who the inventor was if they couldn't.

We talked about how the inventions changed our lives.

I wrote a small easy reader where the children draw what each inventor invented.

Click here for the graphics I used.

2-3 grade sheets   4-5 grade sheet
I shrunk it down to fit in our science logs.

Weather

Part of the science curriculum is to talk about weather.

Our science kits come with these awesome stamps.

To introduce this, I recreated this on the board.

It was identical to this sheet- I was hoping 

that there would be no mistakes, but alas... we are first graders!

I put the stamp sets at each table.

All the cloudy ones at one

precipitation at another

and wind at the last.

Click HERE to get a copy of your very own.

Even if you don't have the stamps, you could just have them draw their own or you could find weather graphics and the students could glue them in the correct spots. I would still operate the same way, with the children moving from table to table to glue the correct icons in the correct spots.

Math

Each day, we have a math graph.

Here we collected out data:

My awful snake but okay mouse!

 In the lower left hand- yeah, ummmm that is supposed to be a skunk!

Get your very own school year's worth of graphs.

To save on paper, we do group work together on the Elmo.

It is a time filler.   

Living and Non- Living

Check out her plans HERE so you too can get your very own copy

 We re-created this chart in our Science Logs.

I made a big one on my easel.

I went around and asked the students each individual question- did you notice that one of my froglets said "kids" don't need food??? Wow!  was their an uproar!!!

We read this book and then I called children up and they pointed to something and asked the other froglets if it was alive or not.

I try to make boring items, a little less boring.  So Instead of just making two lists, I had them outline something alive and something not.

After the K-1 and I read the book, we sorted these in the pocket chart.