GREAT BLUE HERONS, DRAGONFLY NYMPHS, SYCAMORES AND MOSQUITOES OH MY!

What a day!  Scientists shared great ideas in the field today.  We now have had 2 days of outdoors experiences.  Students have collected and observed stream and pond organisms, prairie insects and plants, and some impressive birds.  Many scientists have also noticed the forests around and how many trees have fallen.  Of course they are coming up with many questions and lists of natural resources.  At the same time, we have successfully added the new iPads to our experience.  In the field, students have reading, writing, math and social studies work loaded on their devices set in the context of our trip. This week we have worked on questioning in reading and reading nonfiction, writing descriptive words from the thesaurus and science notes, a math pretest and some adding and subtraction practice, and writing about our island in social studies. I was impressed especially with the kids today.  They have improved a lot with their observations and they were very inspired by the outdoors the past two days. Please enjoy the pics of all our trips on our 2014-2015 COMMUNITY PROJECT BASEd LEARNING link to the right.