Animals 2x2

Snails, Worms, and Isopods

This nine-weeks we are learning about animals in science.  Our first animal to study is snails.  Here is a little of our exploration with these fun little creatures.  

Day 1: We talked about safety when handling animals.  We came up with rules we thought were good to remember when we handled the snails.  Here are their posters they made to remind them of all the rules. 

Day 2:  We read a book about snails and learned all the body parts of the snail. They got to hold and play with the snails....all while being scientists of course! Then we had to record our findings.

Day 3:  We had snail races!  We put colored stickers on the snails and watched as they raced out of our target. Let's just say these weren't the fastest races.....

We can't wait to learn about worms next week!

-Bennett

Egg Hunt

1,2,3......12!

Our Beach Buddies had so much fun at Reed's first Egg Hunt!  Students had to find eggs, in order, 1-12.  They then had to go back to the fence, put them in order, and finally pick one to eat!  It was a happy day!

-Bennett

Me on the Map

Maps

During our Living on Earth science/social studies unit, we learned all about maps!  We looked at the globe, a map of the world, Texas, Cedar Park, and our school.  We read Me on the Map and found our own special place on the map.  Students enjoyed making their own community maps and maps of our classroom and their bedroom.  

Have your student make a map of a room in ya'lls house for fun! 

-Bennett

Non-Fiction Texts

Posters and Recipes

During the 3rd nine weeks we learned about non-fiction (informational) texts.  We learned that we can learn from non-fiction books, posters, recipes, maps, etc.  We sorted books, cut out and sorted pictures of books from the scholastic book orders, and even made our own informational texts!

Here are a couple of the lost posters they made for their lunchboxes and jackets.  They did a great job!

The next informational text we talked about were recipes.  They got a chance to write their own recipes.....and I realized we needed a little more experience with recipes (after reading their own) so we made Rice Krispies by looking at a recipe!

We all agreed they were delicious! 

-Bennett