We're Reducing, Reusing and Recycling a few of our most popular Earth Day posts today! It's our way of saying We're on Spring Break! Save the Earth... Read all about how we make our Hoot Owls. Check out our We Love the Earth Activities and Earth Week Wildness! We love working Earth Day into our Habitats learning too! It's the perfect time to take a stop in the Rainforest...One of Earth's most precious habitats and one of our students' favorites! ... VIEW POST
Earth Day Activities Recycle
Habitats of the World
Our first thought was, can we PLEASE get a little more green on that little loading bar up there? Puh-lease load faster!! Please? So, while we're waiting impatiently, we'll just take our summer vacation "in our minds" for now... Habitats of the World Adorable Earth Graphic by the adorable Krista Wallden We've been continuing our travels around the world. This week we are zip-lining through our newest Habitat Unit, The Rainforest Habitat. Our class is loving our habitat learning and ... VIEW POST
Earth Day Hooters
We LOVE hooters. Well, our first graders LOVE hooters. Apparently... They told us today. Some actually shouted, "Oh my goodness! I LOOOOOVE hooters." We didn't even care about the shouting out like we normally do, but who yells, "I love hooters!" in first grade? Whoooo? Perhaps, we should explain? Today we completed our I Give a Hoot Earth Day Owl Craftivity. Oh, no...It gets better... You can grab our Earth Day Owl Craftivity and tons of other Earth Week activities in our We ... VIEW POST
GIVEAWAY Winner & Fluency Building Bookmarks Take 2
And the BIG Bloggy Birthday Winner Is... a Rafflecopter giveaway Congratulations Laurie!! Check your email shortly for all sorts of goodies!!! A HUGE thank you to our blogging buddies for helping us out too. You Ladies are amazing! This week, we got cracking on our Earth Day learning. It is one of our favorite units to teach. We are super excited to be trying our sweet friend Katie's Easy {and adorable!} Ecology unit along with our We Love the Earth activities this year. You can read ... VIEW POST
The World Didn’t End, So Teach About It We Must…
Well, we feel like we've given the Mayans and Nostradamus ample response time to end the world and so far they've got nothing! In the words of Tammy's 5 year old nephew...Phewf So, since the world is sticking around for hopefully another billion zillion years or so, we'll have to continue learning about it in class. Phewf... Which is actually a good thing. Not only that the world is sticking around... But, also because we adore teaching our class about Habitats! It's tough though... We ... VIEW POST
Earth Week Extravaganza…
We've been spinning through the week celebrating our Earth, Earth, and more Earth. We've recovered nicely from our 2 mile walking field trip to the local supermarket, and moved onto more eco teacher friendly activities. We had an on-site field trip about 20 feet from our classroom today ~ We ran there! :) When we arrived {out of breath ~ us, not them} we were in awe to find the Wyland Clean Water Mobile Learning Experience. It was 45 minutes of pure hands-on Eco-ness, as we learned ... VIEW POST
