Rainforest Fun and... A FREEBIE! :0)

I am so behind on blogging…PLEASE FORGIVE ME! Settle in for lots of pics and some new ideas!

We have been hard at work in the rainforest!  We have been journaling in our Jungle Journals…

Working on learning lots of rainforest vocabulary…

Making projects and doing lots of writing too…

We write in our Jungle Journals daily but we LOVE it when our students write in their daily journals about the theme we are learning about! Justice did an AWESOME JOB! J

This is our Rainforest “Fact Chain” Project. Students choose 10 rainforest words from our thematic word wall, use the word in a fact-based sentence and do a mini illustration. We do these for thematic projects and will regular word wall words!

Patterns for all of these plus my jaguar and sloth are included in my rainforest unit! Visit my Tpt store to purchase!

On Friday, we got together with Our Smart Community and worked in small groups ((SYNERGIZED)) to make rainforest posters including all the layers and many animals we have learned about during our unit! It was a fun and exciting project! 

 

Click below for your FREEBIE of our project! J We will be working on Rainforest Insects over the next two weeks and then moving into our HUGE Ocean Unit until the end of the school year on May 23^rd!

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USA & Presidents Finale

We finished up our United States unit this week! The students loved learning new vocabulary words about our nation and presidents. We have been amazed at how our students have bloomed in their writing lately!! We are so proud of them.  Here are some student examples of our vocabulary strips!

Here are some journal examples!

(Each morning during Smart Community, we focus on a new vocabulary word and writing about it later in the day.)

Next up… We will be swingin’ in the Jungle!! I am planning (hoping) to post my HUGE (over 100 pages) Rainforest Unit this weekend! I just have a few final touches to add! J

I experienced Antarctica and I didn't even have to leave school!

What a week! WOWZERS! Full moon and no heat in my classroom for 3 days… I am all about life experience when learning but hanging out in Antarctica is not my idea of fun! J

Despite these trials…lots of learning and fun transpired! We have  hung out with Mrs. Parrott’s class for many hours the last 3 days. I am thankful for our community of learners that just went with it! We learned tons about Penguins and made a bubble map to help us remember important facts. We learned 5 new vocabulary words this week, learned about the 3 main states of matter, learned CK digraph and how to spell with it AND how to write a rebus story. WE WERE BUSY!

I worked for about 5 hours today on my Winter, Penguin and Antarctica Unit. I wish I knew how some of these teacher gals whip out and post a unit so fast. Practice makes perfect…right? J

I am stoked to have Monday off and I have big plans to have a shopping day with Kelly! My girls are spending the day with my mom at her request! I might be a little excited! Have a good weekend and an excellent Monday!!