Just Keep Swimming

Oh my goodness…I seriously am trying to apply the “just keep swimming” idea from sweet Dory on Finding Nemo to my life this week! {No, I don’t watch this movie often, but we did watch it on the way to our field trip!} :) Spring fever has definitely set in with my sweet loves! I am trying to make things as hands-on as possible to keep them motivated and interested!

So, on the note of swimming, we have been working on two major projects in preparation for our big academic celebration in a few weeks. Since we have been knee-deep in our study of animals, the students are in charge of an aquatic animal and safari animal project. We have pretty much wrapped up our aquatic animal study/project that had the students researching coral reefs and the endangered sea turtle all while learning about bullets and fact boxes in nonfiction. We created a mini lapbook (if you will).

Here is a look at the front…

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And the inside…

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Then for our display, I saw these little cuties from Bishop’s Blackboard! They were just perfect, so I couldn’t resist!

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We have also been enjoying our study of earth’s biomes. The kids are doing an excellent job on their biome flipbooks from my Safari Unit.

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Then, during our study of the forest, I just HAD to find a way to fit these cute little hikers into our activities {Thanks, Cara Carroll}. After we finished our forest study, the kiddos wrote riddles to describe some of this biome’s main characteristics.

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I wish I could say happy hump day or even TGIF, but sorry y’all, it’s only Tuesday! :) Ha! Hope you are having a fabulous week!

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