22 April 2012

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day, sweet friends!  Have y’all been out planting trees today, or what?!  Well…I haven’t, but I did enjoy an afternoon listening to beach-y music outside on the deck.  What a perfect day to celebrate our beautiful Earth!  Speaking of celebrations, we celebrated Earth Day as a class on Friday.  First off, we talked all about the different ways we can work together…and by ourselves…to make a positive impact in our environment.  After all, WE’VE got the WHOLE world in our hands!  It takes a lot of people doing a lot of little things to make big changes in the world!

After we made a little “rough draft”, I got the kids to stamp their prints on a large earth shaped piece of poster board.  I used my planning time to type out our anchor chart responses and then hung this up in the hallway…I’m totally out of space in my room!!!

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Since we’ve been learning about cause & effect, I thought it was the perfect time to practice what we know with a little Earth Day cause & effect flip flap.  It was a great, quick way to assess who was still struggling with this concept!

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We read this book….

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And then we followed up with this little craftivity.  I used to make these with my kids when I taught Kindergarten and it was always one of my favorite activities!!!

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Such a fun way to end the week!!  Now we’re off to enjoy the rest of Earth Day as a little family of four!  Have a GREAT week!!

25 comments:

  1. Love all your Earth Day activities! I especially LOVE the cause and effect flip book!
    Lisa
    Stories From Second

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  2. I love all your activities. Especially the poster at the top!

    ❀Barbara❀
    Grade ONEderful
    Ruby Slippers Blog Designs

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  3. Oh so cute!
    painting is just SO FUN! and requires lots of sighs, squeals, and clean up but again SO FUN!!!
    I adore your ideas!
    Reagan

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  4. Love the handprint Earths! I also haven't seen Earth Day -Hooray and I love his books, have to add it to my list!
    Fun in K/1

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  5. Cara, I love that little flip book. Do you have it in your TPT store?

    primary practice

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  6. Love the flip book idea! That's exactly what we are working on this week too!

    Amy
    Krazy About Kiddos

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  7. Love all your ideas...thanks for sharing!!

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  8. I like the We've Got the Whole World in our Hands poster! I especially like the cause & effect flip book. Would love to find out where you got it. You always have awesome things to share. I can see why you have so many followers.
    Connie:)
    www.welcometofirstgraderoom5.blogspot.com

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  9. adorable as always! what is the font used for your earth day promise?

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  10. I love the hand print poster! Definitely doing that next year :) Thanks for the ideas!

    Susan
    T.G.I.F.

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  11. As always, I LOVE all your ideas! So cute!

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  13. Love it!! Everything is so cute! :)

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  14. What are the fonts you used on these activities? I love them!

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  15. Great Work!!!! I really enjoy your blog!!! Keep up the good work!!!! sharon.washington96@yahoo.com

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  16. I love the group poster! What a great idea!! :)
    Nicole
    A Frenzy of Fun in 1st Grade

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  17. Hi Cara, We made those little flip books and had so much fun! They turned out really cute and I loved that it was a simple project which could be completed and hung in the same day!

    My emails to you are probably buried in your inbox because you must get hundreds a day. Just wanted to let you know that I checked your blog and TPT store for the Earth Day flip book printable, but couldn't find one.

    I made a flip book based on yours, credited you for the idea in my blog post and on my printable. I also linked back to your post here. Hope this is ok. {Let me know, if not.}

    Thought I may have a better chance reaching you through the blog. Have a great week!

    Patti

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  18. What a wonderful activity! Thanks for sharing! Please check out and join my blog dreamswillfly.com. Thanks, Renee
    P.S. Your blog is beautiful!

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  19. Loved the poster so much I tried it with my kiddos!!

    *TAG* you're it! Come check out my latest post on Mrs. Stanford's Class to see how to participate :)

    Blessings,

    Jessica

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  20. All my favorite ideas come from you, and these will all be among them!

    Delighted in Second

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  21. How do you do your display board with the clothespins? I love it! Did you hot glue them to the bb paper?

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  22. We are going to do Earth Day after testing. I can't wait to do a couple of these activities! Thanks for sharing!

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  23. Your art project is so adorable. I made the header for our kindergarten teachers! Thank you~Theresa
    http://trifectabookreviews.blogspot.com/2014/04/its-earth-day-by-mercer-mayer-freebie.html

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  24. So cute! We are working on some of these ideas this week. Where do you get your cute fonts and what are they called??

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