October bulletin board for Parent Teacher Conferences!

Have parents write an encouraging note to their child after meeting with the teacher.

These are great self esteem boosters!

Parents and students alike love them!!

Have students draw a name from basket of desert animals that are studied in the book Desert Babies.

Have students read about their animal, write a simple report...and draw a picture!

We have been very busy the last week of September.  We just finished our desert unit where we incorporated the nocturnal animals from the week before. We read several nonfiction books and also The Cactus Hotel.

My student teacher, Miss Landrith, made another lapbook to go with the desert unit and it turned out great!

We studied the life cycle of a cactus and Miss Landrith came up with a great time line.

They also recreated the cycle of a cactus with candy...this was a giant hit!  The green is "Airheads", the yellow and red are the famous "M&M's".  As Miss Landrith narrated the life cycle the students manipulated their "cactus" with the growing of the cactus, next the arms, the flowers forming, then fruit, and finally the fruit falling off the cactus.  Then of course they got to eat them!  Yummy!!!