Five for Fraturday

I was SO excited to link up for my first ever Five for Friday and then....I had too much fun Friday night at a Lia Sophia jewelry party that I didn't make it home until it had turned into Saturday. Oops. I needed that though. Yesterday marked the end of the 1st quarter and it was time to woooosah!

So I'm joining in with Doodle Bugs Teaching even if it's a day late. 

 

{One}

This week we were learning about plants. We used clay, chenille sticks, and tissue paper to make models of flowers.

{Two}

We also did an activity where we made some observations of different flowers and recorded similarities and differences. We also noted what characteristics would make a pollinator more or less attracted to a particular flower. 

  

{Three}

We used Thinking Maps (a brace and flow map) to work on problem solving in math. The brace map helped us separate our word problem into the important parts. The flow map helped us think about the steps we'd have to go through to solve. 

 

 

{Four}

We used flow maps again, but this time for writing. We wrote paragraphs on how to settle a colony. Kiddos needed to reflect on the experiences of the colonists at Jamestown and Plymouth to decide what steps would be helpful in settling a successful colony. 

{Five}

Guess who had a ridiculous amount of fun at the Lia Sophia party and decided to become a Lia Sophia Advisor? Yep! It was me!! Can't wait to get my starter kit and all the jewelry. So fun.

Here are the pieces I'm most excited to get. I love them!

 

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!

It's a Plant Life

Chapters 2 and 3 of our science curriculum cover the life of plants and plant varieties. I'm continuing the work in my science journal to see what will be good activities for the students to complete.

Here is what I've come up with so far.

We'll always start with a title page of course and a section of vocabulary work. I won't picture it each time, but it'll be an envelope that contains flashcards, a memory type game, or some other hands on way to work with vocabulary. 

 

I want to start by brainstorming a list of all of the ways we use plants in our daily lives. This will help students make that important connection between what we're learning and their own little lives. 

 

We'll draw and label the parts of a plant and do a match up activity that explains the job that each part of the plant has to help the plant survive.

   

We'll discuss photosynthesis and how it is connected to respiration. I wanted to include a little flap page, but as you can see in the first picture the ends of the flaps get bent up. When we do this in class I probably won't have them fold the page exactly in half. After folding it I cut slits. On the inside of the flap I will have them describe their illustration. 

These two chapters cover SO much more information, but since I'm headed to the pool with my two little loveys, this is all I had time for this morning. What would you include in your plant section of a science journal?