Day and Night

    We read My Day: Morning, Noon, and Night. As we were reading, students showed me thumbs up for day or thumbs down for night for each activity in the story. Then students were given an index card and drew a day or night picture. Then we created a tree map with their drawings.

    We graphed which we liked better day or night and then analyzed our data. We also read Little Quack's Bedtime and discussed what we saw in the sky in the story's illustrations. Then we created a circle map of objects in the night sky using the students' illustrations. We added a frame of reference for our learning around our circle map.

Day and Night in the Science Lab

    In the science lab, Mrs. Riggins used a globe and a lamp to demonstrate how the earth rotates and why we have day and night. She also talked about how this is a model to help us understand.

    Then we talked with at our tables about day activities. A spokesperson from each table shared an activity as Mrs. Riggins charted. Then we talked about night activities and shared.

    Then Mrs. Riggins showed us a video clip about day and night. It showed how we rotate around the sun as we rotate on our axis. When we got back to our classroom, we illustrated 4 characteristics of day and 4 characteristics of night.

Day and Night

We're learning about space. We focused on day and night. We created a tree map of things associated with day and night. Then we sang Mr. Sun and Mr Moon. Then we discussed the differences in the two songs and created a venn diagram to compare/contrast day and night.

Then we read My Day: Morning, Noon, and Night. We created a list of night activities. Then we created a good night class book of what we like to do at night.

We also created a list of day activities and created a good morning class book of what we like to do during the day.

We also graphed whether we liked day or night better and analyzed our data.