We Know Our Facts

We spent all week gathering facts and information about our animals for our informational text writing. Each of the students picked a different animal to research and write about. To introduce the students to fact finding skills, I had them draw a pictures of the animals in their natural habitats, label the name of the animal, and list two facts discovered about the animals.

I was so amazed and proud of the awesome job each of the students did with their pictures and fact finding skills, that I had to showcase each of their animal facts on the classroom bulletin board for everyone to enjoy!

Our Classroom Bulletin Board

 

All About Sea Turtles

As we finished up our unit on Informational Text Reading & Writing, we put our fact finding skills to the test with a KWL chart all about sea turtles. The students had so much fun sharing all the things they already knew about sea turtles, as well as what they wanted to know about sea turtles before we read, "Sea Turtles" by Kay de Silva.

After reading about sea turtles, the classroom was buzzing with excitement as my awesome first graders not only realized all the facts that they already knew about sea turtles were in the book, but most of the things they wanted to know about sea turtles were discovered in the book too!!

Our KWL Chart

"Sea Turtles" by Kay de Silva