A Camping we will Go!! (Day 1)

Today I introduced our end of year adventure --- Camping!

 

Let me remind you that I have at least half of my class that are English Language Learners.  One of my little guys really thought we were headed out to camp!

 

We started with an easy graph of have you been camping? yes or no?

 

Turns out that 10 of my students had not camped and 9 had some sort of camping experience.

 

We moved onto our writing lesson, Terse Verse.  I read One Sun: A Terse Verse by Bruce McMillan.

 

 

We made a list of possibilities.

 

 

Then we wrote our own!

 

 

Snack Pack

 

 

Bent Tent

 

 

Bike Spike and Fly Sky

 

 

Deer Fear and Spoon Noon

 

 

Bright Light and Pole Goal

 

 

Bent Tent and Foul Owl

 

 

Sky High, Bee Tree, and Fly High

 

 

Bee Tree, Fish Dish, and Frog Log

 

 

Cat Hat and Bike Hike

 

 

After lunch and specials we moved on to learning about Skunks!!! 

 

We read Smelly Skunk.

 

and

 

Backyard Wildlife Skunks

 

 

 

We wrote down some skunk facts on our anchor chart.

 

 

 

Then we made the cutest skunks ever!!!  Thank you Cara Carroll!!  Her craftivity was just perfect!

 

 

Please note some skunks have bows and crowns!  The kids just crack me up.  Needless to say today was a complete success.  I survived teaching ALL day, without my most awesome student teacher.

 

Happy Monday!