After becoming zookeepers on their trip to the Kansas City Zoo, students worked to identify various animals within the desert, grassland, ocean, and wetland ecosystems. Upon their return, these zookeepers learned all about one particular animal within a specific ecosystem for their written report, with information including what they look like, what/how they eat, and why they live in their ecosystem - after all, zookeepers need to know lots about the animals they work with! In order to share their information using technology, students elected their five favorite facts they learned and created a picture of their animal. Using an app called Chatterkid, student illustrations came to life! We hope you enjoy the ecosystem videos through the link below!
0 Comments
*Kinders used word family stickers to create their own verse to the song Down by the Bay *1st grade used Kenn Nesbitt's I Don't Know What to do Today to choral read and act out through charades; then also heard a twist on some familiar nursery rhymes with Jon Sceizcka's Truckery Rhymes *2nd grade completed four stations: becoming fluent with a selected poem, creating an illustration for their selected poem, looking through various poetry books, and building poems (poem fill in the blanks) *3rd grade focused on acrostic poems and challenged students by introducing the concept of using the topic word to create a sentence, not just isolated ideas after reading Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli and Dan Brewer *4th grade created color kite poems with similes using Blue is My Happy by Jessica Young as a source for inspiration *5th grade learned about and wrote haikus and their 5-7-5 syllable structure; 5th grade also finally got to play some football and practiced their knowledge of locating nonfiction books 2nd grade students completing their various poetry stations.
|
CategoriesJenny WilliamsAfter 8 years in the classroom, I'm very eager and excited to be in my 5th year as Library Media Specialist in the Learning Commons of Langston Hughes! Archives
April 2019
|