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Breeding in class: The rabbit...

Prolonged observation of an animal

Objectives general:

- Recognize the manifestations of animal life and relate them to major functions : growth, nutrition, reproduction, locomotion.

- Concept of life – respect for life

- Fix your attention, observe

- Mastery of the language : - speaking and listening to others

- lexical and syntactic enrichment

- observe, describe, wonder, verbalize what I understand and translate it into a drawing

Project launch

Discovery phase_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d:

Arriving in the classroom in the morning, the children discover a cage prepared with shavings, hay, bowl, bottle.

Allow the children to question themselves, to formulate hypotheses.

Grouping:

 

  • What did you discover this morning when you arrived in class?

  • What's inside the cage?   => nothing, nobody

  • What can be put in this cage? => hamster, rabbit, hen, cat...

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_                     _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    lion ---> let the children react to the feasibility of certain proposals_d04a07d8-9cd1-3239-9149-2067313d_

   => choice of animal

Installing the animal in the classroom

Grouping:

The Mistress brings the animal in her hands.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   It's a dwarf rabbit.

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   He has a name: Caramel (write the name on the board in capitals by verbalizing)

We can also look for a name for the class animal - proposals/vote

Observation - Description - Touch:

What I see: ears, 4 legs, claws, whiskers,...color

Representation:     (to scientific drawing)

Drawing done in large group on the board (a few volunteers) + collective criticism

Define the criteria for recognizing the class rabbit

  • big ears

  • head, eyes, whiskers, nostrils, mouth, teeth

  • body, small tail, 4 legs with claws

  • importance of color (brown and white)

===========> Class rabbit drawing workshop + writing his name (copy) CARAMEL

How to organize?

-> Care for the rabbit?

  • daily (food, water)

  • weekly (hay, cage cleaning)

-> Who?

  • How to find out?=> table of services

  • At what time of the day ?=> to be defined together

Reflection :

What do rabbits eat when they are very young?

What does he eat later?

Why does his cage have to be big?

Why should it be cleaned often?

Who takes care of the rabbit when it is sick?

Why should the rabbit be vaccinated by the veterinarian?

How long can a rabbit live?

===========>Search for documentaries to answer your questions

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_       -> a book hunt group

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Workshops
  • Drawing of the class bunny

Make the difference between drawing and scientific representation

  • Experiment:           Que mange le lapin ?

          _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad (list the children's proposals)

        Affichage -->  _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ image/name   

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  • BCD searches:          Chasse aux livres

         Albums, magazines, documentaires sur rabbits

  • Cut/Paste - Alphabetic principle

        Reconstituer le mot "CARAMEL" avec les étiquettes-lettres_cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ ------ MS: model on card

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  • Cut/Paste - Alphabetical principle

        Reconstituer le mot "CARAMEL" dans les 3 écritures (capitale/script /cursive)

  • Writing

  • Writing with magnetic letters(Word workshop)

  • Circle the word in a list(different words or graphic proximity)

  • Color the word among others(3 writes)

  • ​ Identify the letters making up the word   "CARAMEL"----- MS: capital

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  • Oral language: expressions

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_      * courir comme un lapin  _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_      (ask students what this means before giving the explanation -

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          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     *lay a rabbit

Written record Cahier de Culture  (or Cahier de Vie)

Show the Cahier de Culture to the students and say that we are going to put the photos in their notebooks to explain to the parents but that I will need them to write a little text that goes well with each photo.

The Mistress writes from dictation on the board, the students help with the encoding.

Arrival of a rabbit: Fifi

This pretty little Angora rabbit was offered by a student in the class.

It is called FIFI.

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