Monday, June 8, 2015
     We were excited to observe the changes in our butterfly habitat! Ask me to tell you...
              
                      How many butterflies emerged over the weekend! How many still in a chrysalis?

Room 8 naturalists at work...

                                        Ask me what is the work of a naturalist.... explain

We were outside all morning and we learned as a naturalist....

Thank you Zac for sharing your snack with the painted lady butterflies!

                               Can you find the butterfly....         The old oranges had becomes......

              What did you observe....

                                  We watched and observed.... and wrote about our observations....

                                                Thank you Amira for sharing your fruits..

                        Butterfly food....

We read this book outside..... ask me how it felt...

 What is the scientific word for this tube?

Can you make a connection to this picture?

Many students wondered how butterflies and moths sleep...here's how!

Predators!!! Thank goodness we don't have any of these in the classroom!

What is the scientific word for blending in with the world around them?

Watch this butterfly lay its eggs. They are as small as the head of a pin

After 3 or 4 days, the caterpillars hatch and they EAT, and EAT, and EAT!!

What is the scientific word for shedding its skin?

We did a math activity with Ms. Toor class... Ask me what we did on the laptops....

                                                     Ask me how I sorted the tens and ones....

We read  Ask me about some of the facts...

We wanted to be a part of nature.... We spent our whole morning outside learning 

like a naturalist...   listening to the birds

 Using our 5 senses....

 We were looking for

insects and smelled this beautiful tree..... Ask me what was the smell like....

We stopped to see where the sweet smell was coming from....

 We found a bird

Reading a book....               observing...

           We found a fly....Ask me if this is an insect recalling some fact we read in a book last week..

We read a few pages from this book.  Ask me how long is a second...
                                                    I can blink my eyes 3 times in a second... time me
                                     
   interesting facts...

In one second

In one second

In one second.

In a minute

                                                         Ask me how long us a minute.....

In one minute...

                        60 seconds = 1 minute      let' count to 60 and do something together
                 

                                                 Ask me how we explored nature....

                                                  Found a spider....

                 We were running after a butterfly.... it was too hot        Ask me what did we do..

We rested in the shade...... Ask me how did I feel....

cool...     I felt the breeze on my face...

                          We sat outside and observed the gopher..    Ask me how fast dis it move..

We enjoyed having my snack outside....

Ask me how I felt...

                              We took our potato plant outside to harvest the potatoes......

                       Ms. Toor's class joined us....  we worked together to empty the soil...

Can you predict what Amira found on our potato plant...

Ask me to compare this caterpillar  with the painted lady caterpillar....

                   What differences can you see.....         What were the similarities...
                                    How many real legs...         What are the other legs called...

                                                  This is what naturalists do.......

                                  How did it feel.... a caterpillar walking on your arm

                                                 Ask me  what Noor found.....      

                                    We talked about the life cycle of a plant..... Ask me

                                         I wonder why the leaves were turning brown....

  No potatoes....

                                              Ask me where did we put the dirt....

See the excited, curious faces..

Good job Naturalists!

Ask me what we fed our butterflies...

oranges, kiwi, grapes... They are all juicy fruits

During our observation Noor said, " I can't believe it I saw a real proboscis."

Ask me why didn't we feed our butterflies bread...

  We read this book and counted backwards.... from 10 to 0

                                       10 turtles and fell in the water.... how many left?


  We read this book and
talked about how we all are unique and special.... We should not try and be like someone else...
                We are special because we are us....           Ask me...

Thanks,
Mrs. Malik