Lily, Jewel, Faith, Honey, Lucky …
Posted on January 19, 2012 by Melissa Edwards in Classroom Ideas, Integration Ideas, Literacy, Writing.
My daughter is in Kindergarten and has been coming home the last few days telling me that they are having trouble with Lily because she is not behaving. I started trying to figure out who she was talking about …
There is not a Lily in her class ..
There is not a Lily in her dance class …
There is not a Lily in her daycare class …
So I had no idea who she was talking about … until I looked at the class newsletter yesterday ..
Lily is one of the bears they have been watching by logging in to view a “Den Cam” (that would be a web cam focused on the den of the bears). The North American Bear Center offers 3 Live Den Cams:
- Lily & Faith
- Jewel
- Honey & Lucky
Based on the detailed descriptions we are getting at home, I can only imagine how excited those students are when they see the bears moving and just being bears. Wouldn’t that be a great opportunity to focus on details and descriptive writing? What if each student pretended to be one of the bears? I am sure we could bring in drawing of the bear and surroundings.
Even though my daughter is in Kindergarten, I think about the many grade levels that could use something like this to look at animals, adaptations, environments, habitats.
Wonderopolis even has a past Wonder of the Day that relates too: Who takes the longest nap?
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