Another Expand Your Vocabulary strategy is Voracious Reading. This is where you read many different kinds of books to get a wide variety of words.

June 21- First Day of Summer School

Our first day of summer school went okay. I know most of my students and I met a few new ones. Welcome to everyone! We have a classroom store. The children and I discussed what credits would be for what. We also talked about what debits would happen as well. Each child has a credit and debit sheet and we use it daily!

May 17th- Rain Forest

We are taking a trip to the Rain Forest. This unit will finish up our ASP time. We will turn our hallway into the rain forest. Here is my unit on the Rain Forest.

May 3rd- Ocean/Sea

We will dive into the Ocean this week. Here is my unit on Ocean.

With the K-1 children we did a graph.

April 26th- Amphibians & Reptiles

So my theme is frogs, but I have never done anything about teaching about them. I have frog stamps, frog decorations, frog... yes pretty much everything!!!

This week we will hop to it and learn all about frogs and maybe some other amphibians too. We also learned about reptiles. My friend is part of our local Herp group. It is like a humane society for reptiles and other creepy crawlies. He brought in several creatures. This is TOTALLY out of my comfort zone. My students enjoyed it immensely.

This is an American Alligator.
A 66 pound tortoise.
A corn snake that weighs about the same as your pencil.
A bearded dragon.
A boa constrictor. They even put several animals on the floor to show us how they move. Very exciting!

Seeds

I had the students predict which seeds would grow first. We had marigold, popcorn, and wildflowers.

April 19th- Plants/Soil/Worms

When I picked this topic many months ago, my main thing that I really wanted to do was do worms, namely taste them! Yes, we will be tasting worms of the gummy family! We will be looking at them, smelling them, and finally tasting them. I have a sheet for the students to fill out.We also made gardens of items that we could plant here where we live. We also got to be "Plant Designers" and design our own plants.

Okay so this plant is named after me! lol
Not sure why it went crooked :(
Love this one, a diamond plant!
Great job of a local garden.

The K-1 children drew their own flower then had to label it.