After much hard work in the kitchen on Thursday and Friday, my class was thrilled to adopt SEVEN polar bears. Their cookie sale fundraiser was so popular that they far exceeded their goal of adopting one polar bear. We definitely had a lot of cheering going on when we sent our adoption application on Friday! […]
Not just 1, but SEVEN polar bears! Read More »
My student teacher, Miss Lobreau has been involved in our collaborative project, Little Hands, Big World, since the beginning of her student teaching placement. Although this is her first placement, she was eager to plan an integrated thematic unit, and we decided that animal rescue/pets would be very timely and an excellent fit with our
Animal Rescue Continues in Kindergarten! Read More »
What a busy day! We started making cookies to fill our cookie orders today with the help of some wonderful parents and community members. Students worked in teams to mix, bake, bag and deliver cookies. Students even took the great photographs shown below. I saw lots of learning today as my students worked together:
16 students, 4 volunteers and 47 dozen cookies later… Read More »
To prepare for our cookie fundraiser, we read many recipes and learned about procedural texts. Students listened for recipes with bigger amounts of ingredients, so we could make large batches and they were careful to avoid recipes that contained ingredients which students in our school are allergic to. As students decided on the best recipe
When students researched adopting polar bears through the World Wildlife Fund, they found out that it would cost $40.00 to adopt a polar bear. As a previous post explains, our students had many ideas for solving the problem of getting $40.00. Our first fundraiser is now underway: students opted to start with a cookie sale,
A tremendous success! Read More »
We made a video about helping animals after Alyssa from Alyssa’s Ark Small Animal Rescue came to see us. The students were so excited to select the photos, music and text that would best convey our message. They felt that sad music was best because it is so hearing about the homeless and unwanted animals
We had the privilege of hosting an exciting guest today. One of the local organizations our class would like to work with this year to help animals is Alyssa’s Ark Small Animal Rescue. Today, Alyssa visited our classroom and even brought two rescue animals with her! The students in my classroom and Mrs. Caldwell’s Kindergarten
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My grade 1 students wrote this for our school newsletter. We want to help animals this year and this is one project we are doing to help a local rescue called Alyssa’s Ark Small Animal Rescue. Donations of blankets and towels can be dropped off at our school! Learn more about Alyssa’s Ark at: http://alyssasark.webs.com/
We need blankets and towels! Read More »
After our brainstorm with the Kindergartens, our class took responsibility for finding out more about adopting or helping animals. A few days later, I received the World Wildlife Foundation email newsletter which contained a link to their website, which led us to discover their symbolic adoption program. My students were thrilled with all of the
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