We circle back to our Spots of Emotions to describe how we felt while reading about Turtle and his habitat. What wonderful, thoughtful descriptions of emotions!
Lauren is one of the first friends in the classroom this morning so she gets to help set up our civil engineering project for the day. Together, we think of as many elements of the perfect turtle habitat so we can recreate it. Once we make about half the list, Lauren has the idea of looking at our book from yesterday to remind us of what we saw and talked about.
Sure enough! That does the trick! Check out the list Lauren made of the perfect turtle habitat :)
Next step is to get busy! Friends spent an hour and a half building turtle habitats.
After a little time, they begin building bridges, ladders, and tunnels over, under, and around Turtle's pond. These are wonderful solutions to replace building a road directly THROUGH a habitat ultimately destroying it! We are proud to be helpers of both humans and animals!
Part of our rich conversation about this lovely habitat was about frogs, toads, snakes, newts, lizards, and of course, turtles. We talked about amphibians and reptiles and how these creatures often use the sun to raise their temperature and warm up.
Here, some of these little guys are "basking in the sun" to warm up.
We often recap our work from the morning during meeting. Here, we talk about our process for creating Turtle's habitat and the engineering we started. We also talk about next steps and how we will continue our quest to save Turtle and his friends!
