We read books about animals. Then we brainstormed names of animals that we would like to learn more about. We rated which animals we would most like to do a report on and then our teacher paired us up. Books went home the first week and parents were asked to read them to the kids. Questions to answer also went home. In class students wrote in the their journal why they chose their animal. Each day we chose a different question to answer in our journal. Students worked with their partners. Where does your animal live? What does your animal eat? What does your animal look like? Finally, what interesting facts do you know about your animal? After we answered these questions we chose a poster board and started copying information to go on our poster. We collected pictures of our animals. Then we made a plan of how we wanted to set up our poster with the title, pictures and written information. As you can see from this video it was a successful project. Thanks to all the parents for their help. The kids learned lots of information about animals and they were very keen to share it. What do you think?
Animal Projects from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.
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joeyp1
// Mar 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hi this is Joey from Great4thgrade I love your blog I saw that your blog commented on my blog. I would love if you wold commen some more.
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Sue
// Mar 19, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Great job everyone. What a great research, planning and drafting process.
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Luc Lafreniere
// Mar 21, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Hello Mrs Lynch
Me and the familly wath the project of the children…
It is excellent.. It is fun to see the result of their project…
I am sure this project will help then in the future in front of people
Keep up the good work….
and thank you
Have a great day Luc
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23Adrianna
// Mar 22, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi I am Adrianna and I am a grade 6 student in Canada. I go to A.Lorne Cassidy Elementary School. I really enjoyed reading the post about your animal project and by the looks of your picture they look really good. Reading this post brought back many memories. When I was in grade one I did an animal project. We made diaramas. I did mine on a beaver because beaver’s are Canada’s animal. My class and I would love it if you visited our blog. Here is the website address to our blog:
http://jsmith.edublogs.org/
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