We had so much fun learning about the apple life cycle. At the beginning of the week, Mrs. Wanke asked what we knew about apples? We knew so many facts. She explained that what we know about a topic is called our schema. She explained that we can grow our schema by reading and identifying new information. So, we read the story How Apples Grow.
After reading the story, we wrote down all the new facts that we learned. We were thrilled to see that we were expanding our knowledge and learning new things.
Later in the week, we learned the difference between opinions and facts. We worked to identify different apple statements as facts or opinions.
We searched the hallway for apples with letters on them. When we found the capital letter, we had to find and trace the lowercase letter.
On Friday, we read the story, How to Make an Apple Pie and see the World. This was a fun story about a girl who traveled all over the world collecting ingredients to make an apple pie.
After reading the story Mrs. Wanke had each of us make our own apple turnover! Check out our pictures of us making our turnovers.
We loved it even more when we were able to eat them!
Mrs. Wanke shared with us that the evil Victor Hoskins, hacked Jurassic Park's computers. All the fences were down and we were locked out of the controls. We had to work on site! This was a dangerous task, since the dinosaurs were free to roam where ever! We had to work quickly and quietly!
Mrs. Wanke gave each of us our Jurassic Park Field Guide and headlamps.
Our goal for the day was to, solve a series of tasks to obtain numbers. We would write these numbers on the Code Collector page of our Jurassic Park Field Guide. Mrs. Wanke explained, once we had all the numbers she would input the numbers into a random number generator to see if any of the combinations would unlock Jurassic Park's computer system.
Task #1: Dino Determination
We had to measure the lengths of the bones and record the lengths in our Field Guide. Then, use those measurements to determine which dinosaur the bones came from.
Task #2: Dinosaur Classification
We had to read the information about herbivore and carnivore in our field guides. Then we had to look at the dinosaurs and determine if the dinosaur was a herbivore or carnivore.
Task #3 Magnifying Words
We had to use magnifying glasses to read all the words that were hidden in the excavation picture and record them into our Field Guide.
Task #4 Scrambled Up Bones
We had to unscramble the sight words that were on the bone and record them correctly into our Field Guide.
Task #5 Paleontology Grid
We had to read the coordinates of various dinosaur bones that were found at the excavation site. Then we had to glue pictures onto a grid in our field guide matching the coordinates.
Task #6 Excavating Missing Addends
We had to dig up the missing addend and match them to the correct equation. We had to record the results in our Field Guide.
Task #7
We had to read about a top new dinosaur breed that had been created at Jurassic Park. Then we had to go back into the text and color code specific evidence and answer questions from the passage.
We had so much fun and we worked SO very hard!
At the end of the day we had gathered all the numbers. We input the numbers into the computer. The computer generated several possibilities and eventually we found a combination that worked.
