Our lesson on the Bill of Rights continued today. For reference, a flip book was made with simplified explanations and pictures depicting the first 10 amendments. The pages were cut out, stapled in order, and colored while we discussed each one before placing the book into their social studies journal.
After reading The Jellyfish Who Lost its Glow to the class, I asked the students the following questions: 1) have you ever lost something? 2) have you ever asked for help with something? 3) can you describe a problem you may have had and how you solved it? and 4) have you ever worked as a team to help solve a problem?
As a result of this project, the students learned the following:
1. About various sea life
2. How friends can work together as a team to solve problems.
3. How to use various materials and manipulatives: tracing a stencil, marker color transfer process, glue, yarn, markers, etc., to create their jellyfish.
4. How to follow step-by-step directions.
We discussed the various bodies in the sky. We watched a Magic School Bus video about the solar system. We discussed what was a review and what was new information.
I gave each student a Fall Art Activities packet. There were fall leaves that needed to be colored. I had the little artists color with marker on aluminum foil, then spray the foil with water, and lay the leaf template over the foil. The colors on the foil having been liquified by the sprayed water, transferred onto the leaf templates beautifully. They could make as many leaves as they wanted. Also included in the packet was a pumpkin template. I gave them red and yellow paint, since they know that red + yellow = orange. This was a good review for them. There was a bare tree that needed fall leaves. I had the students use yellow, red, and brown paint, so they could dip their fingers in each color and make the leaves from fingerprints. There was also an ear of corn to be colored in a method of their choice: marker transfer or paint. Lastly, there was a football and squirrel. They could use brown paint on bubble wrap to stamp texture on the football and squirrel. When their fall shapes were completed, I had them cut them out and collage them on brown paper. It was a great start to the fall season!
We stretched to warm up. We took two laps around the field and traveled over, under, around, and through objects. We used the hula hoops and the punching bag.
Today's lesson introduced the Bill of Rights. We discussed how the Bill of Rights is a list of rights that Americans have and is made up of the first 10 amendments to the American Constitution, which give rights to all American individuals, including freedom of speech, press, and religion.
Today, we completed the lesson on Florida and the symbols that represent our state. The flipbook describing the main symbols was continued with the sentences to describe the pictures completed and the pictures colored. Then, the book was glued into the social studies journal for future reference.
We focused on moving our arms up and down. Then, we worked on kicking our feet up then down. After that, we worked on high knees up then down. Lastly, we went on a scavenger hunt for items we can enlarge with our magnifying glasses.
We discussed protecting ourselves from harmful sun rays by wearing appropriate clothing and sunscreen. Libby and Teddy created clothing for their LaBuBus indicative of clothing humans would wear to protect themselves from harmful rays.
During today's gym class, Libby, Remington, and Teddy were compliant and gave very good effort with the stretching exercises and outdoor steeplechase races . We also had a group "Hot Potato" ball passing game to test students' skills with coordination/carefulness and speed. An enjoyable time was had by all even though Teddy was still recovering from an illness.
