Posts Tagged ' draw write now '

Posted on December 13. 2011 | Tags:animal habitats, draw write now, frog, pond, pooo, spelling,

Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 5: Animal Needs Today we learned about the needs of animals and how their habitats provide for them. We started out with 2 spelling words today: classify and habitat, which AA wrote in his “Plants and Animals” spelling book (a folder just like the previous ones). I quizzed him on a few previous words from the Community and Citizenship units and he passed with flying colors YAY! We then evaluated the needs of animals, starting with our own species, he illustrated and wrote brief sentences about us humans. We then picked one animal and evaluated where and how the animal was provided for. AA picked a frog. He used one of the Draw Write Now books to draw the frog in [...]

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Posted on December 9. 2011 | Tags:amphibians, birds, draw write now, fish, groups of animals, insects, mammals, reptiles, venn diagram,

Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 – Concept 1, Unit 3, Lesson 3: Classifying Animals Today we actually learned the 6 major groups of animals: fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects. We cut the animal cards from the Student book and organized them into their corresponding categories. We used a variety of colored construction paper (since I didn’t have any yarn to create circles as instructed), so AA placed each animal where it belonged.   This lesson extended for two days with multiple activities about animals:  ’the favorite animal’, ‘animal comparisons’, ‘humans being mammals’, etc. AA chose to compare himself against a frog (a different animal group) using a Venn Diagram, and himself against a dog (another mammal) also using a Venn Diagram. He did a great deal of writing. [...]

Posted by: Patricia