1st grade Entomologists

1st graders from Mrs. Roach's class had fun researching, writing, and creating this week in the Media Center. Each student chose an insect to research and took notes about the insect's habitat, life cycle, physical appearance, diet, and abilities.

On Day 1 we used books for our research.

On days 2 and 3 we used the iPads to access PebbleGo, an engaging website with 4 non-fiction databases (please contact me to get the username and password if you'd like to use this site at home). 

We also realized we still had questions that weren't answered from the resources we were using. So, we used twitter to contact the experts at the The Etomological Society of America. Each student tweeted one question and you can see some of our replies below. 

Each day we read poems from Douglas Florian's book Insectlopedia.We loved the poems that he wrote from the perspective of the insect and how he used creative descriptions to teach us about the insects. On day 4 we became poets and used our research to write a poem about our own insect. 

 

Here we are in the poet's chairs rehearsing our poems out loud!

Each student created an illustration of their insect in its habitat and I imported those illustrations into an app called Educreations. I recorded each student reading his/her poem. Even though we tried to use a 'loud and proud' voice, it's still hard to hear some of us. Make sure to turn up your volume! :)

We hope you enjoy our presentation and learn something from our hard work!