Wild West Unit

Hi y'all! This week we worked on my Wild West Unit.  Every year the SRO officers host a Rodeo event for the special needs students in our county.  We had so much fun learning about all things cowboys and the Rodeo for the past week!

Here are my favorite Read Aloud's for the unit.

We started the week with a text evidence passage on Cowboys.

This is the circle map we created while brainstorming and 

writing adjectives to describe cowboys.  

We labeled a cowboy and cowgirl in whole group while students 

completed a bubble map listing cowboys clothing.

Then, they labeled their own picture. 

In Work on Writing one of the activities this week was to create a poem for a cowboy and cowgirl.

Around the room is always a classroom favorite to build student vocabulary.

Students unscrambled sight words and dabbed it on their 
sight word cowboy hat recording sheet.   

They worked hard finding the pronoun that takes the place of the noun(s) and writing their own sentence with that pronoun.

Every cowboy loves eating beans so I had to bring some out 
for math stations this week.

Every cowboy and cowgirl needs a pair of boots, so we went
shopping for cowboy boots!

Another math station where they had to figure out which 
<,>,= symbol made sense.

You can grab this FREEBIE from my unit by clicking the picture below.

Unfortunately, for the Rodeo a winter storm hit our area so we will be out of school tomorrow for our field trip.  
Here are a few pictures from last year.

You can check this Wild West Unit in my TPT store by 
clicking the cover below.

Font: Kimberly Geswein

Zoo Unit

This week we started our two week unit on zoo animals!  The students are having a blast learning about zoo animals in preparation for our field trip to the zoo next Friday.  

We started off the week learning about Giraffes.  

For each animal we have a whole group lesson with a close reading passage.  Students have a response sheet for each zoo animal.

My kiddos LOVED making their adorable giraffe craft.  You can find this adorable craft

in Deanna Jump's Zoo Unit by clicking here or the picture. 

A group of my students hard at work sorting animals to their animal covering.  Then they are writing a complete sentence describing what each animals covering is.

One of my students working hard matching the phrase to the correct picture.  Then he's writing a complete sentence to describe the picture.

You can check out this Zoo Unit by clicking the image below. This unit includes 20 Math and Literacy Stations, Writing activities, and Nonfiction Passages for 16 Zoo Animals.

 If you interested in only the Zoo Passages those are offered separately in my TPT store.