my Living and Non Living pack for years…
I would start to plan for this week,
uncoordinated happy dance as my printer started humming…
This pack has “printable and playable activities.”Each day we did a few cards from this huge sorting activity whole group.
Once we sorted and reasoned out the LIVING and NON LIVING pieces,
we sorted the living pieces into categories.
We figured out that living things can be
animals, creepy crawlies, things that grow, and people.
We could not find common ways to sort the NON LIVING things.
Here are some of the sorts included in the pack.
I love sorts because I SEE their brains working…
and I HEAR their discussions with their table mates as they work.
They are reasoning things out in their heads and it is INCREDIBLE to be around.
Here is one of the printables for living and non living things.
Check out home of these student examples of more sorts. .
{We used the blue lines to help those little ones cut.}
On this sort, it was easy to place the girl and the cat on the paper.
Since some of the circles can be hard to “read” I asked my students
what they circled when they completed this assignment.
MANY of my
did this table more than once by going to another scene.Of course, there are also printable scenes….
We did one of these scenes this morning for morning work as well.
It was an awesome review.
I also put together a NEW
QR Scan & Learn~ Living and Non Living Pack.
We will be using this this week for sure.
To connect literacy to out unit study, my
also worked on this fun LIVING and NON LIVING reader…
And I made a version with the terms NOT LIVING and another with the terms NON LIVING.
We colored these words with crayons since they can be hard to identify.
{Plus, that NON in the term NON LIVING can be tricky…}
Then we read the book.
Once we looked at the pictures, it was easy to add the cut apart words
LIVING and NON LIVING to their places on each page.
The words on the pages match what you are labeling…
but it was time well spent.
And my students love independent readers!
They are so proud when they use these readers during read to self at Daily 5!Here is the Living and Non Living {Print & Play Pack} link.
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