This week in first grade we read a story about "How To Be A Nature Detective". This story skills are finding the main idea, long o, contractions, and using am/is/are/were. The story focuses on using clues to find out about animals in nature.
The week we completed a wonderful Animal Research Book. Ill update pictures when I go through them. The children were responsible to choose an animal and find a book from the library to help complete it. We used information found on line and in a variety of available texts from the library. We also went as a whole school to go see Disney's African Cats movie. It was a perfect fit for this week's lessons. One of the points in the story is comparing finger prints to animal tracks. I made a mystery fingerprint sheet and we made animals out of fingerprints. The students then worked in partners to guess with each 
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We made maraca's and listened to mariacchi music. We were also able to squeeze in a game I made up called, "Ole". The child in the middle has to guess who in the outside circle shakes their maracca and says, "Ole"
We finished up the week with Family Earth Night. I brought my own boys back and held an Eggimals project in my room. It was awesome to be there at night and be part of a family night.
