Build Your Wild Self

Book Talk Tuesday..

Mrs. Jump's Class. with I love, love, love these books. What great graphics and these books are helping me teach about mammals with my first graders. I will be using these books this next week as I introduce what makes a mammal a mammal and how animals of all kinds learn to survive and adapt. These books are great for common core such as CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of the text.

                           Check out the book for yourself!

Let's try a computer connection now! This site is a great link that allows students to Build Your Wild Self! from New York Zoos and Aquarium. Fun...Fun...Fun! One more fun thing...a freebie!

Animal Hair Freebie

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"Tree"mendous Book Finds

I am so excited to be working on perfecting my tree unit for my younger kiddos. As a science teacher, I am always looking for ways to help my classroom teachers incorporate what we are learning in science. So, in our school garden there are a great number of trees, stumps, and bushes to learn in our outdoor classroom.

Today, I am linking up with Mrs. Jump's Class for Book Talk Tuesday. I found some great tree books that I will be using this year that I will share with you today, but my favorite that I found is ...

I love, LOVE Gail Gibbons' books. This one is pretty comprehensive. It does a great job with vocabulary, for my youngers I will skim and share pictures, but for the olders it is rich with information and packed with ideas.

Not only vocabulary and background knowledge, but fun ideas too!

I also am using this fun video to start my tree/plant activities this fall...

Great video for starting your unit! I also made A FUN FALL UNIT that I will be using with my kiddos this fall. Here is a freebie from that pack...

                             "Tree"mendous Freebie

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We Love Books!

Thanks again to Mrs. Jump's Class for hosting this linky party! I have been checking out a ton of books this summer. I found a fun one for our olders that is timely. We are learning about pollination and the decline of the bee population in our garden club. We are also looking for ways that our four and fifth graders can tie reading, writing, and science together. This book, is a great resource for students to understand and then take a stance on the issues that are presented.

Here is a bee freebie for you!  I also have a great site for tons of lessons and ideas that I found as I was researching! Check it out at: Pollinator.org

Bee Freebie

It's July...Bee happy!

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