Getting started as insect scientists!

Hi everyone!
We have had a few busy and exciting weeks in first grade as we begin our study of insects. 
During back to school night, we talked about how learners acquire new information when the learning is meaningful, purposeful, and has value...so the work we do in first grade together is based around science concepts.  This also helps us learn importance life science concepts as we read, write, think, speak, view, listen and calculate - the processes of literacy.  The more concepts we learn in any subject areas, the more neural connections we make, and the better learners we become!

Here are some of the things we have been doing:

All learning begins with what we already know, so we began by telling our stories about bugs and sharing them with each other.

Then we decided how scientist learn new things - and how an entomologist would learn about insects - this is what we decided we could do to learn more about insects







We decided that we need insects to observe - so here are the mealworms!



We researched by reading books to find out where insects lived, the drew and wrote about our ideas.




After learning more about bats, we decided to research other insect predators - we read, spoke, listened, viewed, drew, and wrote about insect predators.

We have had a great two weeks starting our insect learning - stay tuned for more!