Sleeping Bag Campers

All last week we had been reading fiction stories about camping to build up our schema on the topic. As a fun activity to tie all our learning together and show me what the students have added to their schema over the course of the week we did a writing project about camping on Friday.

We started off our activity with a thinking map. We used a flow map to write about what we would do first, next, then, and last if we went camping. This was our first time being introduced to the flow map for writing and everyone did great!

Then, we created these cute little campers in sleeping bags and used them to write our final sentences about what we would do if we went camping.

I think the finished products turned out super cute!

This week we are continuing our camping theme, but moving into our nonfiction unit. We'll spend some time comparing fiction and nonfiction texts as well as researching some of the different animals you might find while out camping. Should be a fun week!