First Graders and Magee Celebrate Earth Day!

Every year at Magee we celebrate Earth Day.  We have different presenters come in for each grade level.









For example, Second graders learn about trees and go with their presenter outside to find the different trees.  Fifth graders take the morning and cut brush outside.  First graders learn about prairies and go outside to study the Magee prairie.  It's a really great day organized by one of our fifth grade teachers, Mr. Suhr.





First grade teachers Mrs. Coss and Mrs. Trost wanted their students to learn about Earth Day and the issues related to the day.  They were also writing opinion pieces during writer's workshop.  We thought we could tie the two together!  We started with the students using the database Pebble Go.  Students used the Social Studies database to research Caring for Nature, Cleaning up Litter, Reusing and Recycling, Saving Energy and Saving Water.





They then took all that new information and either wrote their opinion piece or they wrote a persuasive letter to a friend with their opinions.  We then used Google Docs to publish their pieces.  This time we "fancied them up" with different fonts and we used the Research Tool feature to insert a picture.




 Here are a couple of finished products.  They did a great job!  What a great way to celebrate Earth Day!