Every day after recess we read a series of books called "The Magic Tree House" books. Whenever we hear or come across new words we do not know or haven't heard before we write the word and ashort definition down in our Magic Tree House Journal which is behind a purple sticky note at the back of our travel log! Once we have finished the book I write down all of the words that they wrote down in their travel logs and put them on a paper with the cover of that book! This page goes up on our "Vocab" board which is by the writing center so that the kids can use these words in their writing!
The first book from this series that we finished about two weeks ago was all about dinosaurs! Yesterday we had a special guest come to visit our room! Trey Smith's grandmother Kathy Jeans brought all sorts of fossils to share with our class. She also brought some pictures of dinosaur fossils to show us and shared some wonderful information and stories! The kids LOVED every minute of it!
After that the kids got to create their own fossils using gummy bears and bread! This project was so neat! They put the gummy bears face down in the bread and left them there for a little bit. Next, they took the gummy bears out of the bread and could see the imprint of the gummy bear in the bread!
Last but not least they got to EAT their gummy bears and bread!
Some even made a gummy bear sandwich!!
Thank you so much Mrs. Jeans !
