Friday, April 19, 2013

Worms and Dirt

The Food Chain:
     This week was filled with more lessons about earthworms! The focus was on the earthworm's habitat and the animals that share its environment.  We learned how animals need each other for energy and what a food chain is.  BrainPopjr.com has a wonderful video that taught us the words "consumer", "herbivore", "carnivore" and "omnivore".  After breaking up into pairs the first graders created their own food chain diagrams!   


(Isaac and Isabella worked together.  By the end of the lesson they had created six food chains together.  Great team work!)


    

     Meanwhile in the back of the room I pulled each group to help me make our Fun Friday snack; worms and dirt! We started with pudding.  Then we crushed cookies.  The finishing touch....gummy worms!  Did you know that gummy worms have segments just like real worms?! (This was probably the most exciting earthworm fact we've discovered all week...!) This earthworm unit is fun....and yummy!

(Damion helped me mix the pudding.)

(More pudding to mix, so Sharon helped.  Crushing those cookies was a fun job too.  With block in hand Arianna made some dirt!)


(Anthony adds some "dirt" to his pudding cup.)


(Jasmine eating her worm!)


(Awww bummer...I don't think they like it....)



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