We're BUGGY About Learning!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our insect unit! This is one of my favorite units to teach (I know I say this a lot) because the students are so excited to share their background knowledge about insects and all the creepy, crawly bugs! Here is a sneak peak into our unit....there will be a lot more to post once we kick of the unit after spring break! Happy spring and 80 degree weather to my fellow Chicagoans!

Instead of making a typical web of facts or concept map after reading nonfiction texts, I created a butterfly on poster board. I will write the facts inside the wings of the cute butterfly!

This will be the web that I will use to record the students' facts about ants after reading a nonfiction text. Notice the compound eyes! They always laugh so hard when they see all the eyes glued on in one blob--but they never forget what compound eyes are....that's for sure!

After learning about bees, I will record the students' facts in the body of the bee. Again, I have our compound eyes!

I hung the insects on the clothesline that runs across my classroom to display for our portfolio conferences.  I didn't want my room to look bare after taking down all of my St. Patrick's Day decorations! :)