I know I haven't posted in a while and we have done a lot of neat things in Room 2... I am still learning the art of blogging and making it a part of my teaching and communication. Please forgive me as I am trying to be better about it. I have just been so busy with life that my poor little blog has been neglected!!! Please read on....
This letter is going home on Monday along with the research packet. The idea for this project came from here:
I saw this great little project and immediately wanted to do it with my class and instead of re-creating everything, I just purchased hers since it is absolutely perfect. I'm sure my students will do an outstanding job on their projects as well.
Dear Room 2 Parents-
We will be starting our last theme of the year. It is the Amazing World of Animals Theme. I am excited because I have an exciting and rigorous project for you guys! You will be helping your child do an Animal report. Your student will be doing a Non-Fiction Report with the purpose to inform an audience of a topic using real information and facts. This is a common core standard that kindergarteners should be able to do with support and guidance from adults. You will get a packet that has pages for each part of the assignment to do with your child.
Here is the timeline for you project:
May 20- Animal/ Type of Animal (mammal, fish, etc.)
May 21- Read and Understand the Fact Sheet
May 22- Find pictures of your animal (print them from the computer, find in magazines, books, etc.)
May 23- Diagram the parts of your animal
May 24- Habitat (where it lives)
May 28- Diet (what it eats)
May 29- Movement (how it moves)
May 30- Babies (information about its young)
May 31- Prey/ Predator Information (what it eats, what eats it)
June 3- Animal tree map (use the fact sheet to help you and any other information you have found)
June 4- 3 Interesting Facts
June 5- Favorite thing about the animal
June 6-7- Presentations in class
You can choose to do something each day, or you can choose to do it all at one time. Your child will be getting points for this assignment, so make sure they have it ready to present by June 6, 2013. Don’t worry, you do not have to create each page, I will provide a packet that all of the information needs to go into. All you have to do is help your child research their animal by using the internet, the school or public library, rent videos, or visit a zoo or the Living Desert. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me.
Reminders- Spring pictures and picture money is due! Please get that into me as soon as possible.
June 10- K/1 Water day- more information to come
June 12- Room 2 Kinder promotion- more information to come
A lot of testing will also be going on in the next few weeks to make sure that each child is prepared for 1st grade. I will send home some things that need to be worked on if there are areas they need to practice. Thanks for all your help this year!
❤, Mrs. Hinchen
