April 22, 2013

Animals and their Habitats

Today we started our Animal Unit by learning about Habitats!

The first places we studied are very COLD habitats....

Antarctica and The Arctic!
After learning about the Top and Bottom of the World, we started learning about the things that live in those places!

We studied penguins and learned quite a few things about them!
The hatch from eggs,
They do not fly, but they swim real fast!
The fathers balance their eggs on their feet until they hatch
and they live in the SOUTHERN part of the Earth!

We practiced balancing eggs on our feet like penguins!







We measured ourselves with different kinds of penguins! We learned that most are smaller than us preschoolers, and only a few are taller than us!









We used our counting skills to match each penguin egg with it's daddy!

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We then spent the next week learning about animals that live in 
the FOREST
 We created our own habitats (that I forgot to take a picture of )
Then we played Bear Cave Math
"How many bears are sleeping in my cave?"
(It's so much fun, they don't even know they are learning to add and subtract!!)




the DESERT
(dang... I didn't take pictures)
We made habitats with poky cactus plants!!
and the JUNGLE
Here's our Jungle Habitats:

 an upside down hand print for our elephant.... So adorable!


We then talked about
AMPHIBIANS and REPTILES 
and compared the two different types of animals!

Cornstarch painting for the amphibians feels moist and soft.
Glitter gives us a nice scaly feel for the reptiles!


We've had so much fun studying animals and their habitats!!

April 12, 2013

EGG DROP!

Humpty Dumpty helped us start out our egg unit. (click here to check out what we did)

We then learned about all the different kinds of animals that hatch from eggs.

We discovered that 
Snakes, turtles, birds, octopus, platypus, spiders, ostriches, penguins, sea horses, fish, and alligators all hatch from eggs!

Then we made these fun eggs: 

At the end of our EGG unit, we celebrate by having an EGG DROP!

Each child brings an egg protected any way these kiddos can think of....


...and Mr. Brandon drops them from the roof!! 



We watch as they come crashing down to the ground.....
and HOPE our eggs don't crack!!

We open the packages up to see if the eggs cracked:

 And GRAPH THE RESULTS!! 

We recorded our results in our journals:
(this picture is upside down.... sorry) 

April 1, 2013

THE EARTH

We live on EARTH!
The Earth is made up of Water and Land!
We live on the land.... 

Which way is NORTH?
Which way is SOUTH?





We learned that the Earth is a PLANET in our SOLAR SYSTEM!
Our solar system includes some of the following: 
Stars, planets, moons, and the sun!

We made last name rocket ships to get us to outer space!

We talked about constellations... 

...and made some of our own!


Edible Solar Systems: