Animals

Butterfly Art

Hi Everyone! We’ve been learning about butterflies and even had the opportunity to keep some caterpillars and watch them change into chrysalises and emerge. After we released them we decided to make our own tie-dyed butterflies from coffee filters. If you haven’t done this before it’s super simple. You need white, round filters and you get the kids to colour … Read more

Lots of Ideas for a Salmon Unit

Inside: Learning about salmon. Lots of activities for a primary classroom. Lots of Ideas for a Salmon Unit We’ve been learning LOTS about salmon AND we completed these fabulous salmon art projects (pictures below). We Read Two Great Salmon Books: The first book is called Salmon Forest by David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis. In this beautiful story, set in the Pacific … Read more

Our Butterflies!

Three weeks ago we received five Painted Lady caterpillars.  They lived in little cups with special food inside a small plastic aquarium. We watched them very carefully for days, waiting to see when they’d turn into chrysalises. Yay! The one above has just started to change. While we waited for the butterflies to emerge we made tie-dyed butterflies from coffee … Read more

Here’s to the Animals, Freebie

Last September I blogged about this fabulous book And Here’s to You!  I’ve since read it to my class two more times. I absolutely LOVE this book. I wish I had written this book!  It’s so incredibly delightful and heart-warming. If you don’t have it yet … go buy it! We spent some time reading and re-reading it so that … Read more

A Peek at Our Bat Week

We worked hard last week on our bat unit. After a few final touch-ups on our books … we’ll be done! The kids wrote about one or two things they learned about bats and then glued their writing onto these sweet paper bag bats. We read Stellaluna and compared bats to birds We had a ton of delicious fun making … Read more

Fun and Fabulous Ideas for Learning About Bats

Hello! Today’s post is more of a gallery walk. Hopefully these pictures will inspire you to do your own bat unit. I typically do a bat unit every other year and it’s always one of the favourites. Before beginning our unit we always wonder about lots of things! As we read about bats we start collecting our facts on this … Read more

Bat Poems: Freebie

Inside: 2 free instant download bat poems. I have two super cute bat poems for you today. The first poem, Bippity Boppity Boo, is a name play. In the first blank insert a child’s name (e.g., Sandra) and in the second blank change it to “Bandra”. It’s a great little poem for practicing beginning consonants. Bat graphic is from MyCuteGraphics.com … Read more

Scaredy Squirrel Freebie

Scaredy Squirrel, we love you! We’ve spent the last week looking at a variety of Scaredy books. Well, not Halloween or Christmas, but all the others! Like most 6-year-olds, my class adores these books. Before we read the birthday party book I had my kids predict what they thought Scaredy was afraid of this time! He’s such a silly squirrel. … Read more