Our unit about earth cycles is about to wrap up, it has been a very interesting unit, engaging for the students and so much fun for Miss Andrea and I to teach. Yesterday, students began one of the final projects, making a book of only 4 pages with each page depicting a season. The book will be made in a few stages, beginning with the drawings, then adding the text and finally presenting the book to the class. They are already looking beautiful!
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Yesterday, students worked on their scissor skills and used their creativity in an activity where the end product was going to be a tangram book made by them! They cut out the 7 magical tangram shapes and then arranged and glued them down in any way they chose. They then told me what they made with their shape and I wrote it on their page. The book is now put together and available in the math center along with plastic tangram shapes. Students can recreate what they made or what their friends made!
Once they were finished the activity, they took out their scribble duotangs and practiced their drawing and writing. Their scribble duotangs are an opportunity for them to practice their fine motor skills and draw or write whatever they want! They very much enjoy the freedom of their 'anything book'! Students enjoyed some new books related to our new unit, From Field to Table. We love to use books to spark our curiosity! We later went to the library to see if we could find even more books related to the unit.
I have come to know what many of these student's interests are by the books they choose! Everyone loves our library period, especially getting to choose any book they want!
Today was our first library period, which we will have every Monday. Students get to browse the books and choose one to borrow and keep in the class for the week. We use library cards to record what we borrow and check it off once we return it. Each student got their own library card which is what you see in the picture above! We went over the rules to follow in the library, how to remember where to return a book and how to properly place a book back on the shelf.
Our adventure to the bookmobile today was fantastic! Everyone was so excited, and not just about the bookmobile, but about the fact that some of us use the same road to get to school, that we had a map to follow in order to arrive to our destination, that the park we spend lots of time at for recess was around the corner, that there were little treasures found along the way and most of all, the friendly mail lady we met on the way back that showed us what the grey Canada Post box was for and let us lift her heavy mail bag...it was heavy, she's very strong! Inside the Bookmobile, we met the librarian of Grant Alternative School, she introduced us to the librarians on the bus and they helped us look for the books we wanted to borrow. Next week, more books and another adventure!
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