Rocktober & More
October 29, 2016
We spent the month of October learning all about rocks!
We spent the last few days of our unit exploring all about caves - from how caves form to the parts of a cave to cave formations to animals that live in caves. We then wrapped up our rocktober fun by taking a field trip to the Inner Space Caverns. If there is a cavern near you - I would definitely suggest taking a trip there. The students LOVED it! And totally connected it with their learning - a few things I heard during the field trip...
"Are we in the twilight zone?"
"Oh, look! We are entering the mouth of the cave!"
"I hope we see some bats!"
"Oh cool! A stalagmite, a stalagmite, a column!"
It was so fun to see their learning being connected to a real life experience!!
We did some fun cave activities (which of course I did not take pictures of...whomp, whomp...)
Here a some fun bat/cave activities we did
Top left: Text to Self Connection. We read a bat book and on the back of that craftivity we included our text to self connection written response.
Top right: We began our unit on addition by creating a visual, a math sentence, and a word sentence to show the addition that was happening.
Bottom left: After learning all about bats, we wrote about what it would be like if we were a bat. Then we drew 3 pictures of different things that we wrote about.
Bottom right: BME activity after reading Stellaluna.
We then spent the remaining few days of October learning about the history of Halloween, themes of Halloweens - including pumpkins, and completing some "spooky" Halloween projects!
You can get this spider here.
