Animal Research Recordings

I am so excited to finally post the Voki recordings my students created. They turned out really well and I can't wait to use the voki.com website again for future activities and projects. Each student orally recorded the information they wrote in their animal non-fiction books. Voki.com is extremely easy to use and this was my first experience using it. The kids had a great time!

Fiction Stories

We read "Harry the Dirty Dog" and it inspired us to write fictional stories about a dog or a cat.

Once we had completed our stories, we wrote out the steps that we followed to create the stories.

Here are a few examples!

Animal Research and Habitats

We have been working tirelessly on our animal research and habitats over the past month. We have finally completed our non-fiction books, habitats and voice recordings of our non-fiction books. I am very proud of all the hard work my students have put into each project. They are eager to share what they have learned with their friends and families.I used Amanda Tervoort's non-fiction writing project template from TPT to create the non-fiction books. I also used a website called Voki to create the voice recordings. They are quite funny and we enjoyed listening to each of the recordings.

Writing out the "good copy" of the non-fiction book!

The finished product! Each student chose a different animal.

We worked with a wonderful artist that helped us create a zoo incorporating all of the Manitoba animals researched.

We planned out where each animal should go in the zoo.

The monarch butterfly habitat!

The tundra swan habitat!

The Arctic fox habitat!

We put the zoo together! Looks FANTASTIC!!

Jobs That Involve Taking Care of Living Things

We created a blog post together today. Check it out below!

We learned about how to take care of living things. It was exciting to watch the videos about all of the different jobs.
Here is a list of some of the jobs that we learned about:
1. gardener
2. zookeeper
3. vet
4. landscaper
5. doctor
6. dentist
7. teachers/parents
8. scientists
9. nurses

You have to learn about these jobs before you do them!
Be sure to take care of all living things!!

Here are the ideas we came up with!

Sheep Art

I was extremely excited to teach this spring sheep art lesson that I found at artprojectsforkids.org. I knew my students would be up for the challenge of learning how to draw sheep. They turned out even better than I expected and we had a great time creating the drawings.

I helped out by demonstrating how to draw the sheep step by step.

Awesome work!

A few finished products!

Spring Where are You?

We are still waiting for spring in Manitoba and it doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. Even though we are still dressing for the colder weather, my first graders and I have decided to work on spring activities anyway.

I found this cute poem about the month of March and we talked about the lion and lamb analogy. Although it was cold, we still had many "lamb" weather days!

Ouch Stories

We have been finishing up our "Ouch Stories" for upcoming Triad Conferences. My students have been working extremely hard on their stories and are excited to share their finished stories with their parents. I am very proud of all of the hard work they have been putting into these stories!

Students began by coming up with an idea and filling in this story map.

Next, students created a three part rough copy.

Once their rough copies were finished and edited, students began creating their final copies.