Kinderpond

Friday, October 1, 2010

Insects Sept 20-October 1st

We talked about insects for the past two weeks. We talked about first off what an insect was. A creature that has three body parts. We sang Dr. Jean's insect song. We also talked about how insects moved.

We talked about the name of the insect, drew a picture, and then how it moved.

Kindergarten First Grade

We recorded this in our science logs.

We brainstormed insect words (2-5)
K-5 each drew an ant. K-1 children got words to cute out and paste. 2-5 had to write it down themselves.

We looked through our "Bug Eyes" to see how bugs see everything. Everyone loved this! We looked at our friends and even me!

To conclude our unit, I let the children draw and label as many insects that they could. Here are some of their awesome work!

One thing that you might notice are the little stars on the science logs. We give the stars out two stars- one for their log, one for our Science Stars display. The children are super excited to get them!!

Friday, September 17, 2010

Our science logs

Here is our science log home.

Here are the science logs. My friend Danielle made us the cover using my friend Ashley's graphics. Thanks so much to both of you! The kids love them!

I have now labeled the drawers, more so that I can find the notebooks! I am still trying to figure out a quicker way to get these out. Perhaps, I will have a student helper pass them out.

Our First week of the ASP

In September we will be talking about being scientists. We really want all of the children to see themselves as scientists. We watched a PowerPoint twice. The first time just to get info then the second time to see what tools and safety items they used. The K-1 children listened to the book What Do Scientists Do by Deanna Jump. The 2-5th graders helped read the book:

we made copies of the left side pages and then just had the kids read the sheets.

(pictures to follow)

I am hoping to borrow a teacher's lab coat to make our first, of many, class books. This week, we talked about being safe. We all signed a contract about being safe. We even got a science log.Inside the front cover, we have science expectations. The first time we used our logs, we talked about tools. I gave the K-1 a typed list of tools and they illustrated the words. The 2-5 graders had to come up with their own and illustrate them.

We have the kindergartners practice their names each and every day.