Owl Unit

I love, love, love owls!  This is probably one of my favorite units.

After learning that one of an owl's favorite treats is mice, we had to play a game.  So I created a hungry owl on cardboard and then I attached the mice to toilet paper tubes wrapped in gray ducktape.  Students played "Feed the Owl"!  They each had three tries to get as many mice in the owl's "beak".   

I included a template which I used to freehand the owl in my download.  However, if freehanding isn't your thing, you could blow it up or use an overhead to trace.  I also included the mice to copy and put on tubes.

 Check out this cute owl puppet we made!  I found a similar idea online but I am not sure who to give credit to! :(  Anyway, I made templates for this project to make it easier for the kiddos.

After reading our Oliver the Owl Booklets, we learned filled in a "What we learned" sheet.

We created Owl Night Scenes.

  

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A Bat Unit

We are "Bat Crazy" this week!  We started out by reading "My Batty Book" and filling in each page as needed.

We made "Batty" Headbands and they were able to wear these all week as we worked on our "Bat" Unit.

 We put -at words in a "batty" alphabetical order.

We had a "batty" blast!
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Halloween Fun - Super Cute Witch Alert

Most of us have seen the super cute Monster pudding and Oreo cups on Pinterest.  We made it one step easier and just used pudding cups and mixed in green food coloring.  The kids loved them!

 We also had fun making these super cute witches!

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Microphone Freebie

Our school has really been focusing on presentation skills.  Even my kindergarteners are expected to have good presentation skills.  To make it more fun, we practice with a microphone.  The kids love it.

I attached the template to a paper towel roll (trimmed) that was wrapped in duct tape (to make it more microphone like).

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Back to School

I know it's October, but I am organizing my stuff so I thought I would share my favorite back to school things!  Maybe you can store away some ideas for next year!

This unit is mostly for upper elementary.

These writing journal prompts are for upper elementary.

Spider Unit

Is there anything more perfect than a spider unit as Halloween approaches?

We started our spider unit by reading about Sammy the Spider who taught us some interesting facts about spiders!

Then we showed off what we learned!

We also learned about the Spider Life Cycle!

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Meet Funky, our pet Hamster!

Well, our room is lucky enough to have an addition to our class...our pet hamster!

Since the kiddos are now in charge of feeding, watering, and taking care of the little fella, I felt it was important that they learn a bit about hamsters and how to take care of them.

So we put together our Hamster Books!

We observed our pet hamster and drew pictures of him.

We designed super fun hamster cages!

We compared the size of our hamster to other animals.

And we completed our Hamster Art Scene!

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