Fe! Fi! Fo! Fum!

Fe! Fi! Fo! Fum! We kicked off our plants unit by reading Jack and the Beanstalk and some great informational texts about plants. Today, we read "Roots" by Vijaya Khisty Bodach and "What Does a Garden Need?" by Judy Nayer. I showed them two blank anchor charts on the board ( Plants: Have/Need/Give) and the diagram of Parts of a Plant. Their instructions were to listen to me read the text and raise their hand each time they heard a part of the text that could be reported onto one of our anchor charts. They enthusiastically shared their knowledge.

This student is labeling our plant diagram.

Each day, we will read more informational texts about plants and we will add to this anchor chart. I can't wait to see what it looks like when it is finished!

After studying and charting about plants, we wrote in our journals using our new "By Heart" word "they".

I LOVE that she wrote "Did you know...".

Look at his awesome roots and labeling!

On his own, he decided to label his picture!

This student learned that plants need roots because it helps to hold up the plant and drink up the water.

Here is a little poem that we memorized and acted out today! 

We re-enacted Jack and the Beanstalk by making our own pop up books.

Of course we needed to plant our own "magical beans".