It is a field trip week for us! My young scholars and I are SO excited to visit the aquarium!
Here's a quick peek at everything else we're up to this week:
We have lots of fun planned for our aquarium trip, too. First, we will do some research on different types of animals and their habitats as part of our digital learning classroom challenges. (Our ITS is seriously a genius.) Check out everything we're doing on Twitter. You can follow me (mrszenyuch) or just check out #bigDEALjmt
Anyway... we'll use our research to write predictions about which animals we'll see at the aquarium. We'll write them on these colored bands (conveniently also the colors of our groups) and wear them as bracelets. They'll become a scavenger hunt as we travel through the aquarium. We'll earn bonus bucks for every animal we find.
Anyway... we'll use our research to write predictions about which animals we'll see at the aquarium. We'll write them on these colored bands (conveniently also the colors of our groups) and wear them as bracelets. They'll become a scavenger hunt as we travel through the aquarium. We'll earn bonus bucks for every animal we find.
They are very simple, but they are our field trip version of the HOWL bracelets we've been using at school. Our PBIS team came up with these awesome bracelets, and the kids are LOVING earning them. Anytime an adult sees them doing something correctly in a common area of the school, we get to celebrate their success with a bracelet. We can't give them to our own students, so it's been equally exciting to cheer for my students when they earn them!
While we're at the aquarium, we will also work on discovering how animals interact with their environments using this interactive notebook page. We'll glue it into our notebooks before we leave for the trip, and work on it while we're there. When we get back, each child will create an animal that would fit into the environment he/she picked.
Finally, anyone who wants to earn Bonus Bucks can work on one of our #bigDEALjmt classroom challenges. I selected the ones that would be most successful during the trip, and we'll take the iPads with us (Yup! I am just that lucky!), so the kids can use technology to show what they know.
I hope you have an awesome week!
As always I'm linking up with the wonderful Mrs. Wills. Click on her button to find out out what everyone else is up to this week.
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