Family Turkey Projects

We have just completed our first family project. We hope that it gave your families some time together. We will do a few other family projects throughout the year. The assignment was to take a template of a turkey and decorate it in some way. The turkeys turned out absolutely incredible! We thought that you might want to see what some of the other turkeys in our class looked like. Here are all 30 of them! You can tell by the kids' faces how proud they are of their work!

Enrichment centers- Animals

Here are a few pictures from our science unit on animals. We have enrichment activities that the students can work on to challenge their creativity, and they are it also related to our current science content.

Activity #1- Students were asked to make a collage of verterbrates on one side of a poster and a collage of invertebrates on the other. Analiese and Mattew gave this activity a try and did a great job with it.

Activity #2- Designer Animal- this was a popular one for the class- they were to design an animal that could live in the future.

Below are some close ups of Serena and Maxine's designer animals.

Activity #3- To create a poem or story about an animal. Casey, Marisa, and Dalton all participated in this activity.

Animal Adaptations

We started discussing animal adaptations today in science. The link below is the actual video that we watched. It is a camel rapping about adaptations and the kids LOVED it! They started singing the "chorus" so I had to capture it on video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpTg&feature=related

Animal Leaf Projects

For the month of October the students had an at home project to make an animal using leaves. They were encouraged to use as many leaves as they possibly could. We were absolutely thrilled with the end products! They turned out incredible. For each child, I have included a picture, the name of their animal, and a fun fact. Enjoy!

Remi named his animal "Hipalonagus." His fun fact is that the average adult is between 4-5 feet.
Derek named his animal "The Perry Bird." His fun fact is that it eats acai canopy tree seeds.

Matthew named his animal "Aligonkey." His fun fact is that his animal is a reptamal, half reptile and mammal.

Payton named her animal the "Yurpl Bug." Her fun fact is that the bug has live births.

Marisa named her animal "C.O.A." Her fun fact is that it stands for crazy, out of this world, alien. It has spikes protect them from sharp plants.

Jack D. named his animal "Liowpecker." His fun fact is that his animal uses talons to protect themselves.

Clay went above and beyond the assignment by creating 2 animals! The one on the left is an eagle. The fun fact is that it is 30 inches tall.

Analiese named her animal "Dede." She is a rabbit and centipede mix.

Shradha named her animal "Peacock." Her fun fact is when her animal gets excited he fans out his beautiful tail and dances.

Nathan named his animal "Koala." His fun fact is that the koalas put their claws deep into trees.

Cayden named his animal "Count Tortula." His fun fact is that it is faster than a cheetah.

Thai named his animal "Turtle." His fun fact is that his shell actually feels rough like a turtle.

Tristan named his animal "No Arm One." His fun fact is that his animal lives underground.

Maxine named her animal "Spiky Plant- Planimal." Her fun fact is that it eats fruits and has pads on its feet.

Jack K named his animal "Leafly Stem." His fun fact is that his animal is special because he is nocturnal.

Trey named his animal "Romandon." His fun fact is that it has 6 legs.

Serena named her animal "Pingy." Her fun fact is that it is a close relative of a penguin. It flies and eats fruit.

Gabrielle named her animal "The Flying Squirrel Acorn Fish." Her fun fact is that it has a mane like a lion, gills like a fish, glides like a flying squirrel, and has webbed feet.

Luke T. named his animal "The 3 tailed elephant." His fun fact is that he can whack people with his 3 tails.

Josie named her animal "Flying Deer." Her fun fact is that her animal throws sticky stap at its predator.

Casey named her lion "Marlin." Her fun fact is that he lives with his cubs and his wife.

Luke M. named his animal "Rosela." His fun fact is that it lives in the forest with green trees and all types of plants.

Isaac named his animal "Crocosaur." His fun fact is that it eats meat and baby dinos with no teeth.

Will named his animal "Scorpion." His fun fact is that there are 25 different scorpions that can kill a person.

Anusha named her animal "Rocky Turtle." Her fun fact is that it like to eat poison arrow frogs.

Ian named his animal "Wunny." His fun fact is that it is a weiner dog and bunny mixed together.

Kiyomi named her animal "Lion." Her fun fact is that it lives in an African Savannah.

Hays named his animal "Spotted Terandon." His fun fact is that it can eat fish up to 3 feet.

Dalton named his animal "Chommpy." His fun fact is that his favorite time of day is night.