Wk 7 - Day 30

the lesson today was dealing with the classification of animals and introducing linneaus. the students had to find ten different pictures of animals from magazines that were supplied and cut them out and paste them on a piece of paper. the next step was to find the scientific name and describe the animal in 12 words...like linneaus. mrs. s suggested that the lesson be spread out over 3 days instead of 2, so my lesson for friday got bumped to monday. the majority of the students were working hard, but a handful of them putzed around finding pictures...i’d remind them that the toughest part was yet to come; describing the animals. I’m glad that I listened to mrs. s because the students really did need an extra day.

they did pretty well; lots of new vocabulary was seen in their work on describing the animals...herbivore, insectivore, etc. I always get warm fuzzies when the students are actually listening and use words I introduced in just talking to them and telling them stories about animals. students were telling other students that their animal in question was a prey animal because the eyes were offset in the skull...which I had told them a day earlier.