Earth Day and Parts of a Plant

Monday was Earth Day.  We read a book about the holiday and discussed ways we could help take care of the Earth.  Then we made some Earth pictures with funny faces and wrote about what we would like to do to take care of the planet we live on.

We discussed the parts of a plant this week.  We learned about the roots, stem, leaves, and flower and what jobs they have.  We split our class into 4 teams and each team was in charge of making a giant part of a plant:

The roots group

The stem group

The leaves group

The flower group

Here is the finished project!  It is a humongous flower out in the hallway.  We worked on writing sentences about each part of the plant all week long and labeled our flower.  The kids were pretty proud of their work!

We also made our own individual flower pictures and labeled the parts of the plant.

Here is a video the kids have enjoyed while learning the parts of a plant:

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Centers and math time were a lot of fun this week!  Here are some highlights:

 Adding numbers using seeds

 Writing about what would happen to the Earth if we didn't take care of it

 Finding word wall words in a book about Earth day

 Picking two numbers out of a garden glove and adding them together

 Counting syllables

 Matching silent e words to their pictures

 Writing an acrostic poem about spring

 Planting flowers by counting by tens

 Reading words and drawing pictures to match

 Comparing numbers and figuring out which is greater or less than

 Using some fun stamps to build plants on paper

 Practicing listening for vowel sounds in words

 Adding two numbers and then counting on from that number

 Reading books in the reading center about plants

 Making books about the life cycle of a plant

 Practicing the sh, ch, th, and wh sounds in words

 Writing equations that equal ten

Making partners with numbers using a ladybug mat

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The computer lab is unavailable for use on Fridays because other classes are doing their end of year testing.  We took advantage of the extra time and beautiful weather and had a fun time playing outside on the playground together! 

Niki was our star student and enjoyed showing us a movie that makes him laugh!