Living Things

Last week we began learning about living things.  We now know that ALL living things must:

grow and change, eat, reproduce, and move.

Once we learned these facts and reviewed by doing a living/nonliving thing sort, it was time to put our new knowledge to use. If you've been wondering where some of your favorite magazines went, here you go.  We went through and cut out living and nonliving things to glue into our journals.

 After we glued our pictures down we flipped the paper over and drew a living and nonliving thing.

 Side note:  I have to say that us teachers found it quite amusing, that the student who brought a hunting magazine ended up with a living/dead(nonliving) thing sort haha.  I mean... they aren't living, so it was technically correct. Love it!

This week we have begun learning about one type of living thing...animals!

We started today by talking about animal babies.  We learned what different animals' babies are called, and played a matching game.

Moms on one side:

 Babies on the other:

 Then we had to match up, and say the correct name of the baby animal.

Goat/kid

 Cat/kitten

 Hen/chick

(thanks to Madison for taking the pic:)

 Bear/cub

 Dog/puppy

 Pig/piglet

 Duck/Duckling

 Then to end our day we had our very last visit from Mrs. Susan.  Today she brought an adorable, and very soft, rabbit.  We learned a bit about this rabbit, but she did an amazing lesson on mammals.  We learned what the biggest, tallest, fastest, and smallest mammals are.  We also always learn some really fun facts.  Like...did you know a rhino's horn is made of hair!?  What!?

 We presented Mrs. Susan with a thank you book we made of all of our favorite animals she taught us about because we sure will miss our monthly visits!

Finally, I am so sorry I did not post this very important event last week, but better late than never.

Happy Birthday sweet Allie!!

 Thank you so much for sharing your very favorite chocolate donuts with us.

Boy were they delish!