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1. Earth Day

We started Earth Day with

a visit from Fancy Nancy

and her story,

Every Day is Earth Day.

This cute activity came from

Fun 2B in First!

We wrote about how we can help the earth.

2. Insects

Fiction & Nonfiction Pair

with insect story souvenir

This is a fun insect activity 

from Deanna Jump.

Students received another story

souvenir after reading that insects have 

compound eyes. We used them to look

at each other and draw what we saw

from a bug's eye view!

Are bugs creepy or cool?

Another fun activity from

Deanna Jump's packet.

Students surveyed 10 friends

to see if they think bugs are 

creepy or cool. They tallied,

graphed and answered a few questions.

Fly Day!

We watched the video of

Diary of a Fly and read a 

nonfiction book about flies

on BookFlix, which is through

our Area Education Agency.

Two more read alouds on fly day

 with fun fly glasses!

Old Black Fly is one of my favorite books!

We have read every 

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a..

story this year! I pulled out the

Old Lady to Celebrate and act

out the original story!

 This cute fly craft is from 

From the Pond.

We wrote about if we were a fly,

what would we do.

The students got pretty creative!

Ant Day!

Fiction and Nonfiction Pair
and song  
story souvenir ant

This craftivity and writing prompt
 came from Cara Carroll! 
I LOVE how they turned out!

 3. Worms

We started our worm day reading this story 

and singing this song.  We discussed why dirt

is important. Then, I took this bag around and had 

the kids feel inside.  I told them there may

or may not be worms in the bag!

We also compared worms to insects.

Note the boy in red in the last two pics! 

Cracks me up!

(Cellentani pasta, not WORMS!)

Students filled out the sheet 
about what they thought was
in the bowl and then what was
actually in the bowl.

All but one student thought it
was worms! That one little one
said it was macaroni! 

One kiddo even REFUSED to
put his hand in to feel it!

Afterwards, he said,
"Pasta? You scared us with pasta?!"

We filled out a worms are, can, have 

sheet and wrote a story about a worm.

These activities came from

First Grade Blue Skies.

We shared our worm stories.

Then of course, we ended worm
day by making dirt with a worm inside!

Students completed the procedural 
writing for making dirt before they ate.

4. 2D Shapes

chrysalis

alien             turtle

     table      Christmas tree

smiling cat          trampoline



The students got so creative
on these! I just love them!
I think the turtle and chrysalis
are my favorites! SHH!!
No favorites allowed!

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this fun class book in my TpT store!

                               

    

5. Peter Rabbit Operetta

I have had students perform this 

for years and I still LOVE it!

We have this during the day and

invite families members. 

The script came from

 Lucy Jensen and Cherry Carl.

Students draw and paint the props.

I use Jan Brett's printable animals 

for the animal chorus.

Butterfly Update

Our first batch of caterpillars died.

Every single one of them.

They had to have been sick.

The company sent us a new batch

and they are doing wonderfully!

Thanks for stopping by!