I think I canโฆ I think I canโฆ I think I canโฆย
Thatโs what I am saying every morning I wake up to go to school these days.ย
Donโt get me wrong, I LOVE school. I LOVE my kiddos. But I am ready for summer. ๐ย
Thank goodness Iโm teaching a fun unit to keep *ME* excited about coming to schoolโฆ OK and maybe the kiddos too!
So whatโs keeping me going to school as excited as the first day?ย
OCEANS, baby!ย
(Okโฆ maybe that and coffee, and those of you who know me, know I DONโT drink coffee)ย
But anyways, learning about the sea is such a high interest unit! Great way to pull in fiction and LOTS of non-fiction into our reading!ย
Here are a few of the things weโre working on:
Ocean Animal Reports
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Inspired by Holly, from Crisscross Applesauce in First Gradeโs Non Fiction Animal Report writings, we created our own marine animal reports.ย
After reading about animals that live in the ocean, my kiddos chose their favorite animal to do a report on. We spent the week researching at the library looking through books and on the computersย
( a little nerve racking with 8 year olds!)
The best part? When my kiddos couldnโt find information using the resources I had pulled for them, they actually went searching for more on their own!!! (Proud teacher! Tears!)
We used the information we found to create Powerpoint presentations on the traveling computer lab.
The kiddos had a blast creating! One of my little boogers even figured
out how to add sound to herโs! Donโt you LOVE it when they figure stuff
out on their own?
out how to add sound to herโs! Donโt you LOVE it when they figure stuff
out on their own?
Here we are sharing our presentations in triangle groups.
Under the Sea Adventures
We also used our new found knowledge to write about an under the sea adventure.ย We first made an A-Z list of all things oceans
Then we got our creative juices flowing and wrote our stories! On Monday we will illustrate our stories using crayon, and then โpaintโ the paper with baby oil to make it look โsee throughโ.ย
There are soooooo many other cool things we are working on! I am working on compiling ALL of them and more into a โUnder the Seaโ Unit.
Be sure to follow me on TpTย so youโll have first dibs when this bad boyโs ready!
3 days and counting! ๐