This is our core question. We brainstormed before and after about what we thought might explain the effect. Thanks to Charles' mom for running this lesson!
Making predictions about the sunlight's effect.
Our experiment. The one on the left was an ice cube in the "sun", heat lamp. The right is just in the classroom, no direct "sun". Basically this begins to get kids thinking about the effect of sunlight in earth and eventually about human impact on earth.
As my students know, my favorite animal is a kangaroo! Basically I love anything Australian! I brought in these two stuffies and they have been reading and cuddling with them ever since!
This was the only group of students, during literacy stations, that completed this puzzle! Hurray! It was a very challenging one, not only because it was a circle, but also because it was in alphabetical order and had matching pictures to each letter!
As you can see, we had a bit of a problem with the roof line! Oh well! It still works!
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| Our board with Environmental print. PLEASE send in pictures of other "print" your child can read, and we will add it to the board. And yes, we have the space...help us fill it!!! |
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| Our spider table. The bag is full of spiders to play with. |
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| These are the sentences we wrote together about spiders. Yes, things aren't spelled correctly because we are using "invented spelling". (I am encouraging them to write the sounds they hear) |
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| Would spiders be a good pet??? Ask your child how many eyes a spider has. How many legs? How many body parts? What do they eat? How do they eat? How do they have babies? What do they spin? |
