Snip off the stems and place the flowers in water that has food coloring added. To help us understand how the parts of a plant work, we do our rainbow flowers experiment! Use any white flowers. To assess the student’s writing, we also include writing rubrics in our research projects! The students then record their learning in their very own Plant Research Journal! We use tree charts, brace charts, true/false sorts for higher order thinking and labeling to learn about vocabulary and adaptations! As we learn about platns, we add new learning and address any misconceptions!Īs we research and study plants, we record our learning on our class charts. Before we do any learning about plants, the students share their schema or what they know about plants and we record it on Post It Notes. We add our schema on the first day of our research project. This serves as a great assessment to see if students can identify living/non-living and explain their thinking.Īs always, our research project kicks off and ends with a schema map. My students also did a scavenger hunt to find examples of living and non-living things. Ya’ll there’s nothing like the squeals and giggles when you get out the earthworms! (Note: no worms were harmed and all were released outside after our lesson) We measured each worm, described the worms and decided if each were alive or not. This sets us up to understand plants.Īfter we learn what living things and non-living things need, we explore living and non-living using earthworms and gummy worms. (NGSS: KLS1, KESS2, KESS3) Living And Non-Livingīefore we learn about plants, we de some investiagation into living and non-living things. This 2 week plants unit is aligned to the NGSS. This research project contains suggested books, recording sheets for plants as well as all the materials needed to create your research journal and graphic organizers! We have also included rubrics to assess student writing. The ‘staches will be using our Plants research creation to research and write about plants!! We will learn the parts of plants, plant life cycles, how we use plants, what plants need to grow, and how plants help people! We will also plant bean seeds and observe how our grass grows! Students will record their seed observations in their seed journals! However, before we start with plants, we study living and non-living things! And that means we’re using our Plants Research Project! Everybody goes home happy, excited, and ready to come back the next day.Spring time means it’s time for learning about plants and living and non-living things. We also host our own conference called ‘Elevate’ about four times a year. We end our day every single day with a dance party. I do trainings, and workshops, and in-services for districts and associations. It’s about supporting teachers and hopefully making their jobs a little easier, so that’s why I do it. With the blog and social media you can reach a lot of people. It’s a place for teachers to go get ideas, have a laugh, be encouraged, and inspired.
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I share creations and resources that I use in my classroom, and lots of hands-on, DIY-type stuff, keeping it cheap or free and doable. I share lessons that I’m doing with the kids. ‘The Kindergarten Smorgasbord’ is a website where we post three or four times a week. I post things that I’m doing in my classroom. It turned into something absolutely incredible that I had no intentions of it ever becoming. I knew that the best way to do that would be one classroom and one student at a time.Ībout 7 years ago I stared a blog and thought okay, I’ll just start sharing ideas in the classroom. When I was growing up, and in college I wanted to change the world. It became ‘The Kindergarten Smorgasbord' and it really has been life changing. I became a teacher because it’s what I always wanted to do.
Greg tells us, “I just wanted to write a blog and share what I was doing in my classroom. Greg” (Greg Smedley-Warren) helps inspire teachers from around the world with his engaging lessons and techniques through his blog Even with over 3 million views of his blog and almost 100k followers on Facebook, he still manages to travel and speak at conferences all while teaching full-time at JE Moss Elementary in Davidson County.
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