Writing+Lesson+on+habitat+set-up

Writing about habitats:

LT: I can name and describe what I observed.

LT: I can explain what I think, what I learned, and what I wonder.

Model using shared writing as a class. Review what we did and what happened now (eggs started to hatch). So we need to tell about both of those things in our science notebook.

1. What did we do? (so a stranger can understand). (Turn and ask your partner)

We set up habitats for the milkweed bug eggs. We gave them air, water, space, and food. They eat sunflower seeds!

2. Today what did we observe? (Turn and ask your partner)

We observed that the eggs started hatching. The nymphs remind me of.

We wonder _.

Put away the shared writing after so they don't copy it when they do their own.

Sentence frame (put up so kids can see, and give it to them at their desks if they need it.)

We _. I was surprised OR It was interesting that.

I observed that. The nymphs remind me of.

I wonder.