We've been doing a lot of learning around the theme of camping this week.
Activities include:
- Have you ever gone camping? graphing activity
- Living and Non-living things camping themed sort and Venn-Diagram
- Fishing for facts addition and subtraction activity
- Campfire story writing
For the graphing activity I passed out a yes or no circle to each student based on whether they had gone camping or not and we graphed our responses onto a tent I made out of butcher paper:
The left side shows all the Yes responses and the right side shows the No responses.
We then graphed on a work sheet the results and answered questions such as:
- How many students have gone camping?
- How many students have not gone camping?
- Has most of your class gone camping or not gone camping?
- How many more people have gone camping than not gone camping?
(or vice versa based on the most popular choice) - Have you gone camping?
- Do you like camping?
Later in the week we wrote campfire stories that covered many genres.We talked about fiction and non-fiction stories and after they were allowed to create any kind of story they wanted. It could be made up, real, scary, silly...anything! Once they edited and perfected their stories they each got a chance to share it around our classroom "campfire".
This camping theme got us in the mood for summer and all of the fun things that come along with it.
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