Week 3 Blog Post

WEEK #3 BLOG POST

This week we learned all about living things and life cycles. Life cycles of different plants and animals are highly important for all students to learn. There are many different strategies we can incorporate into our future classrooms that bring students to a fun and engaging environment to learn! Some of these ideas that we got to experience were planting our own seeds and using play- dough to show life cycles!


   This week we focused on life cycles of living things! One thing we had the opportunity to plant our own plants! There were many parts to this. We had to have soil, fertilizer, seeds, water and light!


                                                          

Something that will be very useful in my future classroom if using fun things such as play-dough to learn about life cycles! We were able to use play-dough to show the life cycle of a butterfly which includes, eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis and finally a butterfly!



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  1. Alyce GambrallSeptember 7, 2023 at 6:33 PM

    I also agree that using play- doh is a fun way to learn about things like the life cycle!! Good job on your butterfly sculptures too!!

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  2. Molly ShannonSeptember 8, 2023 at 10:20 AM

    Hey Grace! I agree that Play-Doh is such a great learning tool for our future classrooms! Your model is so cute!

    Have a great weekend!

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