Animal Camouflage Reports and Safari Guide

We are an SRA Imagine It! School.  We are spending this week wrapping up our Look Again Unit.  It was so much fun discovering how different animals use camouflage to hide!  My students worked on an Animal Report to learn more about one of the animals we have been reading about in our stories.  (Thank goodness for a library full of books!).  I even have an old set of Encyclopedias in my classroom as a resource - boy did the kids have a look of total shock on their faces when I told them I didn't have internet when I grew up and had to use those big books to look up information.  Ah… this generation is so fortunate for google!


Here are a few of the completed projects - I think they turned out great:)

Here's a peek inside…

You can grab your own copy of this report and the patterns/directions for creating the safari guide at my Teacher's Notebook store.  Just click on the picture below!!!!

Look Again...Do You See A ... Looking At Me?

For the past five weeks we have been working on a unit called: Look Again in our Imagine It! Reader.  Students have learned all about different animals who camouflage and hide.  Our final project was:

1. Hide a die cut animal in a piece of scrapbook paper by following the patterns.

2. Write about 4 interesting/fascinating things they enjoyed learning about.

3. Create a Safari Guide.

They turned out adorable!

Our Classroom Concept/Question Board

How to Hide an Octopus...

Our story this week was about animals camouflaging in the ocean.  We read: How to Hide an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures by Ruth Heller.  After reading the story, we organized the factual information about each animal we read about and their unique way of camouflaging.  The students created an octopus mobile.