We wrapped up our unit on Lemurs this week by finishing our lemur type books and creating our own “cycle story” called “If You Give a Lemur a Coconut.” Next week we will be diving into the water cycle (another cycle!)
Group Work this week…
Monday
Science/Fine Motor – Lemur Book – Sifakas – They are so great at jumping, they even jump when they walk! Students learned about the incredible sifakas and created a page for their lemur books.
Math – Pattern Blocks – Students watched this animation of Pat Hutchin’s classic book Changes, Changes and then used it as inspiration to create designs with pattern blocks. We learned what the name of each shape it.
Literacy – Int
ro to cycle books – If you Give a Mouse a Cookie – For the first trimester, we will be talking a lot about different types of cycles. We started by reading the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. This book ends right where it begins.
Tuesday
Science/Fine Motor – Lemur Book – Mouse Lemur & Ruffed Lemurs – We learned about the smallest lemur, the adorable, super-fast mouse lemur. Also, the only lemur that will tolerate being a pet, a ruffed lemur. Students made pages for each for their lemur books.
Math – Multisensory Counts – Students took turns dropping different items into a tin coffee can while the rest of the group closed their eyes and counted in their heads. Then students put items into a covered box and had to feel and count how many items were in the box.
Read-Aloud – If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff
Wednesday
Literacy – Guided writing – If You GIve a Lemur a Coconut – Inspired by Laura Numeroff’s “If you GIve a…” books, students took turns authoring a page, building upon the previous student’s words. In the end, we had our own cycle story (see the previous post for photos)
Math- Stinky CHeese game – Reach your hand in the paper sack and you might get a number…or you might get stinky cheese! Students had to sequence numbers 1 – 20 before getting 3 stinky cheeses!
Science – Intro to the water cycle – evaporation – We learned that we are drinking the same water that the dinosaurs drank! Earth’s water evaporated into the air, condensates into clouds, them precipitates back down to earth…over and over and over…it’s a cycle! We made a cup of water transform into water vapor floating around our classroom just by warming it up.
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Social Studies – The Pledge of Allegiance – Mrs. Swanson taught students the meaning behind the pledge of allegiance that we say each morning. We learned why we should treat the flag with respect. Students made their own flag for their family.
Fine Motor/Art – Illustrations for If You Give Lemur a Coconut – Using oil pastels and LOTS of details, students created an illustration for their page in the book we wrote.
Read-Aloud – If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff
Friday
Game Day!- Go Fish – Every Friday Mrs. Swanson will play a new game with students…this week we started with Go Fish.
Science/Fine Motor – Lemur Book – Indri & Aye Aye – We finished up our lemur books with the largest lemur, the indri and the strangest lemur, the aye-aye.
Review Lemur Book, Cat in the Hat aye-aye video – We reviewed the lemurs that we have been learning about. Then finished off the unit with a video about the aye-aye lemur from the Cat and the Hat.
