Our first graders will be learning all about earth materials in the next few weeks as part of an integrated science and writing unit. Students will be practicing writing "All About Books" using introduction sentences, facts, and conclusions as they learn about the many different kinds of earth materials and their uses.
To continue the learning at home and satisfy those excellent questions the first graders ask, check out the links I've gathered on our class webpage:
First Grade Rocks!
These links have a range of informative text, videos, and games to help students explore earth materials further.
Many students have asked to share their own personal rock collections in class, so I'd love to get the students involved in creating a Earth Materials Exhibit! The Earth Materials Exhibit will be a hands-on table of samples that students can use to investigate the wide range of characteristics of earth materials. If your family has a rock, mineral, or other earth material that you'd be willing to loan with the class, please do the following:
1. Put a small label identifying the earth material with its name, your child's name and where its from (if known). This label could be written on a piece of masking tape and stuck to the earth material itself, or could be written on a small rectangle of cardboard (cut from a recycled cereal or tissue box), to sit underneath the sample.
2. Send the earth material to school with your child. If the earth material is sentimentally valuable, please let us know so we can take extra precautions. If the earth material is monetarily valuable, please consider sending a picture of it or a video of your child holding and describing it.
Let's Rock and Roll!
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