Lake Champlain

This week we began our first social studies unit of study:  Lake Champlain. The focus of this unit of study is for student to learn how the lake impacts our lives.  To kick off the unit students went out a Scavenger Hunt.  We looked for classmates who: like to swim, have gone fishing, have been on a boat, want to see Champ, like to eat fish, and has been to Bayside Camp. This was a great activity to help us learn more information about our classmates while learning new information about Lake Champlain.  After our Scavenger Hunt we completed a K-W-L on Lake Champlain.  For the first part of the K-W-L we filled in what we KNOW about Lake Champlain: 

For the W we filled in what we WANT to learn about Lake Champlain:

The L part of the K-W-L will be filled in at the end of the unit with everything that we have LEARNED about Lake Champlain! On Tuesday we discussed what we can do on or around Lake Champlain:

We also brainstormed our favorite activities on Lake Champlain.  After hearing everyone’s favorite activities we completed a class graph showing what our favorite activities to do on Lake Champlain are:

 We are excited to continue learning about Lake Champlain later in the week!