Penguin Research

Our anchor charts we made through out the week.

 Our books: the front cover,

 title page,

 bubble map,

 table of contents,

 brace map,

 diagrams,

 back cover,

 and facts.

    Our pages are in the correct order; the pictures wouldn't load in the correct order. The students filled out their own bubble, tree, and brace map as we stretched out the words together and I recorded on our anchor charts. Then students wrote their facts on their own. After completing our books, they showed their partner each part of the book and read their facts. 

Firefighters

We started our firefighter unit by making a KWL chart about firefighters. We started by sharing what we know and wanted to know. We read I'm a Firefighter.

As we learned throughout the week, we added the information we learned to the learned section of our chart. We also read A Day in the Life of a Firefighter and Clifford and the Firehouse.

We also created a class bubble map about firefighters, and illustrated fire safety rules.

We've been working on identifying the topic and details from informational texts, so we read Russ and the Firehouse. We illustrated the topic and wrote/illustrated 3 details from the story.

Christopher Columbus

We started by reading Deanna Jump's If I Were a Pirate and taking about explorers. We made a bubble map as a class about explorers. Then we wrote about what we would explore.

We started a schema chart on Christopher Columbus to see what we knew before we started our study. Then we went back and moved stickies to the misconceptions sections or added stickies to new learning the rest of the week.

We read A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus and created a tree map about Christopher Columbus.

We read Christopher Columbus and created a circle map about Columbus as well.