Ecosystem in a Bottle

While learning about how plants and animals depend on each other we created an ecosystem in a bottle. We created a pond complete with water plants and an aquatic snail. Then we created a land area with soil grass seed and pill bugs. The grass seed grew quickly by receiving water from the pond and the pill bugs ate the nutrients in the soil, while the aquatic snail ate the aquatic plants. This taught the students how a pond ecosystem works.

 

Living Non Living

We have been learning about living things and non living things and how to tell if something is living. We learned the 7 characteristics of living things. 1. move 2. breathe 3. grow 4. have babies or offspring 5. excrete( use the bathroom) 6. adapt to its environment  and 7. eat. I gave the kids pre-cut pictures out of magazines of living and non living things and they sorted the pictures and created their own circle maps of living and non living things. We also made a class book about living things called Is It Alive? The students chose a living thing to draw and write why it was living based on the 7 characteristics that we learned about.

 

Animals in Winter Research!

During the past few weeks, we have been researching Winter Animals. We started out by looking at pictures and drawing diagrams of our animals. We also read non-fiction books and used Pebble Go on the computers to learn about our animals. The students completed several pre-writing activities including a circle map and tree map. Then they wrote their papers.

 

Nature Center

We went to our school district's Nature Center on Tuesday afternoon. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time!
 

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Apples Apples Apples!

We celebrated letter Aa this week and had a great time doing lots of apple activities.

Eat an Apple Poem

 

 

 

TLC Apple puzzle after read Non-fiction books about Apples

 

 

 

Parts of An Apple

We cut open an apple and observed the insides. Then we labled the parts of an apple.

 

 

10 Apples Up On Top!

We read the book and created apples up on top of our heads.

We counted the apples and wrote the number on a recording sheet.

 







Apple Measurement!

We measured ourselves with apples and wrote how many apples tall we were and our friend was. Then we compared our measurements and identified who was shorter and who was taller.

 

Which Color Apple Do You Like Best?

We tasted red, green and yellow apples.

Unfortunately, we came out with a tie and we had to pretend it came out differently to discuss more and less. But I guess we covered same!

 

 

Making Apple Sauce

 

To review our science concept on how heat changes things, we made applesauce!

 

 Before heat!

 After Heat!