I just finished my Batty for Bats Unit. It is a 59 page literacy and science unit. I have always loved doing a bat unit with my students - click here to see last year's post and snag a freebie. This year, I wanted to align the unit to the Common Core and focus ...
Science
Ants!
Spring Exhibit was two weeks ago and our theme was ants. I finally finished putting my Ant Unit together, so I thought I would share the ant themed photos and the link to my Ant Unit. I am so done with ants! Unfortunately, it looks like I will have the nasty harvester ants in the gel ant farm for ...
From Seed to Plant Activities
The week before last, we planted "mystery seeds" in newspaper cups. The students predicted what type of plants their "mystery seeds" would grow into. Then the seeds began to sprout and we measured our sprouts and wrote our observations in our "Seed to Plant Observation ...
Ant Trouble!
Sweating, heart racing, cursing, jumping, stomping, and eventually yelling as an ant went flying through the air and landed on my pant leg. Can you say stressed!? Yes, this is how my classroom aide and I spent our prep...wrangling harvester ants! Harvester ants are large ...
Bears!!!
We just finished two bear themed stories in our reading series, Splash! and Little Bear's Friend. Besides reading the stories, I decided to do a whole bear thematic unit. I updated what I had already had and I utilized my sweet friend, Rachelle's A Unit All About Bears With Math, ...
Spring Products!
I had a few requests to add a plant observation log to my "My Seed to Plant Project." Please, re-download for the update! If you have not purchased it, it is a quick and easy supplement to your current plant curriculum and is only $2! Here is my tip for planting ...
Seed to Plant Prediction
I created a "My Seed to Plant Project" packet for my students to complete when we plant seeds in the classroom. I provide my students with "mystery seeds" and they predict what type of plant the seeds will grow into. I have added this ten page packet to my TeacherPayTeacher ...
