Earth Day

Happy Aloha Friday!!

It's been a long, busy, fun week in my classroom.  We have done tons of writing, reading and art this week.

We started off the week discussing Earth Day.  We watched some great videos and read a few books.
Check out this POST to see what they were.

We discussed lots of ideas on how we can help the Earth every day.

This was a great info graphic that I used to start a discussion. (Courtesy of  BMW Manhattan)

I then had my students write 5 things they could do each day to help the Earth.  We have been working on informational paragraphs, so this fit right in.

We then put it all together and created these cute little guys.

This particular class is very artsy and loved making them!

If you would like this template you can download it HERE.

I think this is such an important topic to discuss at any time of year.  Especially here on our little island.

I hope your week was fun and eventful as well, and that you have a fantastic Earth Day weekend!!

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Earth Week and An Update

Aloha everyone!  Just a quick post to share a few things.  First up this week is Earth Week and we will be spending some time outside enjoying our beautiful island.

On Friday we made some really cute Earth Hugging Kids.

The students wrote three things that they had learned about protecting our natural resources.

Just click on any of the pictures to download the template to make them.

I ran across this video and just thought I would share.  It's just a few minutes, 

but truly shows what a beautiful and amazing world we live in.

I have had many requests recently to update my Cool Colors planner for the 2015-16 school year.

 It's all ready to roll for the new year.  Just download for the update.  I am also putting it on sale for the next few days if you want to grab your own copy.

It's been a busy weekend and I am truly exhausted!  I feel like I need another day to recover.

Hope you have a fabulous Earth Week!

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Earth Day Linky Part 2

I just wanted to remind everyone if they haven't stopped by Sunny Days Earth Linky Party, head on over. There are tons of freebies and I have grabbed quite a few.  I wanted to add a freebie as well.  April is National Poetry month and we have been working on different types of poetry in class.  My kiddos are pretty good at simple 2 line rhymes with word families and they really love acrostic poems. We have done them for our names and animals and now Earth Day.

 

I set this up in my poetry center.  I have an acrostic template for the words EARTH DAY and one for RECYCLE.  I also created a vocabulary word bank to give them some ideas. I placed them in a sheet protector so that they could write on it with a dry-erase marker.   I put  both templates in one sheet protector so they can just flip over when they finish one.

 They can write or rewrite if they make mistakes.  Then if they finish and really like what they have written they can write it down on a regular copy to take home or display in the class.  This saves on paper and also allows for those early finishers to erase and create a different version.

I also placed some Earth Day books in the center to help generate more ideas.

Just click on any picture to download this freebie.

Let me know if this works for your class.

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