Animal Research

It's amazing that we are in the third trimester of our school year already but that means some very exciting things! One of my favorite things all year is our third trimester nonfiction and research unit! We have been learning lots about informational nonfiction and using text features to help us get information when we read this genre. We have also been learning about doing research!

We started our unit with a short, whole group research project on sea turtles. The class learned about using the kid-safe search engines "Kiddle" and "Kidrex," which you will find links to on the right sidebar of this blog. They learned about searching by key word and looking for specific information. After practicing as a group students paired off to research specific wild animals and they created very cool reports! Below are photos of them creating their reports and sharing them with other students in our class (they shared with someone who had researched a different animal). These went home earlier this week so hopefully you have gotten to see them!

We are now moving into a larger research project where we are all going to immerse ourselves in research about sharks!

PBIS celebration

We finished filling our champ band jar once again and today the class chose to draw on giant paper with their table mates as a celebration!

Artist in Residence

During the month of February UMS had a visiting artist in residence! Barbara from No Strings Attached Marionette company in Randolph came to school and made puppets with students in every class. The residency began with a performance for the school and was followed by students making puppets then doing their own performance using them. The puppets went home at conferences or if your family missed our conference days they will be going home today!