American Symbols and Bugs! - Learning in Wonderland

I am using Deanna Jump’s America unit for the month of September. I’ve always taught American Symbols in February but I always ran out of time. I have also always run into the dilemma of how to teach about September 11th. So this year I decided to focus on America in September and tie everything together. So far it’s been wonderful! I taught about the flag the week of 911 and we are working out way through the symbols.

Here are some pictures of our activities.

I received Time for Kids, Weekly Reader, and Scholastic News last year and my class voted on saving the issues for my future classes! So I organized them and have them ready to go for my themes. My kids this year are loving them!

I love how Time For Kids sometimes includes a large edition of their magazines! I was so excited when I remembered that there was a specific issue on the bald eagle.

This tree map was directly from Deanna Jump’s America unit. Even the graphics are from there.

I also read a chapter book each month to my students. This month we are reading James and the Giant Peach. The students are always so curious about those insects that they hear about so I placed my insect unit (Deanna Jump’s unit to be exact) in September as well. The kids have been loving every bit of it!

Here are some pictures of what we have been doing.

This graph was from Deanna Jump’s Insect unit. The kids were supposed to make a survey and graph of their own but in order to conserve paper, I took the chart route.

I found the idea for this anchor chart on Pinterest right here.

Jump’s unit also includes this really cute poem. We glued them into our science journals and highlighted the rhyming pairs. We then drew and labeled the parts of an insect.

I’m not sure how long we will spend on insects. I have never taught a unit on insects but it has been fun and interesting so far.

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