Making Butter in Mason Jars!
In our classroom, students benefit from authentic learning opportunities! Students take ownership of their learning, through hands-on activities.
Making Butter in Mason Jars Lessons incorporate:
- Sequencing steps from cream to butter
- The science behind making butter
- Collaborative learning and teamwork
- Activating 5 Senses
Planting Marigold Seeds for Mother’s Day
Students use recycled milk cartons to plant their marigold seeds, just in time for Mother’s Day. Students stay engaged by collaborating with their teammates, and complete projects on the life cycle of plants.
Planting Marigold Seeds Lessons incorporate:
- Plant vocabulary
- Questioning and prediction strategies
- Sequencing How to Grow a Plant
- Identify structures of plants
- Science behind how plants grow
- Make hypotheses and observations
- Observe and record observations of growing plants
- Importance and process of recycling
- Arts Integration
- Teamwork and cooperation
Supports Kinesthetic Learners!
Pumpkin Day
A fun-filled day to kick-off our Pumpkin Unit in first grade. Students stay engaged through interactive pumpkin-themed centers on this special day!
Pumpkin Day Lesson Includes:
- Pumpkin-themed literacy and math centers
- Life cycle of a pumpkin
- Scooping pumpkin seeds
- Vocabulary through pumpkin-themed texts
- Observation of pumpkin characteristics with 5 senses
- Sorting, estimating and counting seeds
- Parental Involvement with centers
Teaching Across the Curriculum
Dr. Seuss Day
Each year on National “Read Across America” day, our students celebrate reading by participating in literacy activities around Dr. Seuss texts, and drinking “Grinch Punch!”
- Celebrate “Read Across America” Day
- Written responses to reading Dr. Seuss texts
- Finding rhyming words in texts
- Building Dr. Seuss hats with rhyming words
- Using Venn Diagrams for comparing Dr. Seuss texts
- Enjoying “Grinch Punch”, with the help of parents
