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!!!

Check out our work!

Just a few of our finished bulletin board and hall displays.  We are working hard in third grade.  Check out our cute frog and toad comparison charts!  Science and Social Studies are even more fun when you get to draw what you are studying!

 

Bats, Owls, and Bobcats!!

Outside cover

 Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!  I mean .... Bats and owls and Bobcats, oh my!  We are busy studying nocturnal animals this week.  I came up with a new to me, but old idea and the kids loved it!   I was searching online for ideas for my unit and found a blog about lapbooks.  So I made a lapbook about our nocturnal
animal unit, using the existing test as a guide.  The mini file folders hold facts about the three animals (bats, owls, and bobcats) that we study.  We made a flap book with facts and an accordion fold (I called it a picket fence) with "more facts".   Then we read several nonfiction texts and together found three facts about bats.  Then we read some technical text about how to draw a bat, practiced and then drew our bat on "Bat Facts" accordion book.  Finally, they read a "National Geographic Explorer"  all about owls with a partner.  Together they were to find three facts and write them on their "Owl Fact" books.  They were very excited that they could do this research on their own and started asking if they could write done more than three facts!  I love it when they get excited about learning, don't you??  Check out how they turned out.

Inside

Mini file folder with facts

back of folder

Independent research

Flap book with facts

Picket fence accordion with more facts!