Post Rewind October
Yea, I know, a lot of good this is now
but the activities were so engaging that I wanted to throw it out there so you
have a whole year to think about it! I am going to post some activities
with a brief explanation, some were inspired by other pinners, some were bought
units, and one is project based and quite easy to do. Up first is
the Great Rot!
I saw this idea on Pinterest for decomposing and
since we had a rotting pumpkin and a cool pretzel container left over from
snack - it was a match made in heaven. I didn't teach the children about
any of it. I wanted to get them nice and CURIOUS about the whole thing
and get them to write questions on post-its. So It sat and as days past
there curiosity began and so did the questions. We are actually still
observing it and adding more questions as they arise. We will eventually
get to the answers . . . but not yet.
Next up . . . A great Spider Unit by Kristen Smith found HERE and an inspiration from a Pinterest pin that looked similar to this.
I used this chart to help review and teach about
nouns and verbs then the children wrote spider nouns and verbs on colored
post-its for the chart. The words were then used to create a poem about
spiders. We added painted hand print spiders. I looked for the
original source to link it but cannot find it. If you know, please send
me the information so I can give credit where credit is due. Here is the
hand print with the poem.
Finally, the best project ever and the kids
absolutely loves was the model of a Haunted HouseVillage made from a 2-D map
that they created.
They had to position everything on the model
according to the map they created then I placed the roads where they drew them
on the map. They make the stop signs, houses, trees, cars, signs for
community buildings (using names from our own community). When I locate
the 2-D map picture I will add it. We display the village at our Harvest
Festival but I leave it in the class for the children to use directional words.
I used the back of my library bookcase to place the spider vocab. words on. I stapled black felt to it, a black border around it, then spray glued laminated vocab. words from the spider unit to felt. That way they just stick. No tape and no magnets that keep PEELING off everything! Yea, I know . . . Excuse the mess! It is a first grade classroom and we get BUSY in here!
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