Follower Appreciation Sale Items, Two for Tuesday! #6, and a FREEBIE!

It's TWO for TUESDAY!

Hi!
Since I am linking up with The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky - Week 6, I will have TWO Follower Appreciation items for 50% off today!

Here are the items that I have on sale:

The Eagle Cam:

Keeping an Eagle Eye on the Eagle Nest

{A Writing Activity}

Need a fun way to research and to write about the lifecycle of an eagle?  This may be the resource 
for you! The students will record observations and illustrations in these little booklets. What student does not like to write in booklets?

 

To read more about it, see {THIS POST} and {THIS POST}.
To check it out in my TpT store, please click {HERE}. 

If you are a PebbleGo fan, then you may like this organizer to help with your research. 

You can get a free copy {HERE}. I have also included an organizer with no lines if that is what you need instead. 

If you are not familiar with PebbleGo, then please stop by my blog on Saturday, July 12th. I will be blogging about that gem of a website in conjunction with the You Oughta Know Blog Hop.  Sounds like fun to me!! 

My other sale item:

      "Hello Neighbor!" How to Make a Friend {and Keep a Friend}

This pack has "How To" writing activities including a silly version that coincides with Dr. Jean's song, "Hello Neighbor."

Click {HERE} to see it in my store.

Great News...
Dr. Jean actually has that song as a free download in her store! 

Click {HERE} to check it out. I love how Dr. Jean incorporates songs into everything. That is right up my alley!

Both of these would be great resources for now, for Back-to-School, or for anytime during the year as needed.

If you would like to check them out, today is the day! 

Hop on over to The Teaching Tribune for their Two For Tuesday Linky and see what kind of exciting deals you can find from other bloggers!

Have an awesome day!
Carrie

Big Sale and Life Cycles

BIG SALE on TPT

Great news...Teachers Pay Teachers is having a Teacher Appreciation Sale! 

See the sign below for the details.

Thank you, Krista Wallden for the very cute sign!

Life Cycles

We are studying life cycles now and I am so glad that we have had the opportunity to witness the eagle family at Berry College via the Eagle Cam. Right now the baby is not a baby anymore! Apparently she is a "she." Also, she is 10 weeks old and bigger than her dad. When she is about 12 weeks old, she will fly from the nest. What a big day that will be! Hopefully that will happen during the part of the day that we are tuned in...or maybe not. One can hope. We have recorded our observations in this little booklet.

If you would like to read more about the eagle family, please see one of my previous posts.
These are exciting times!

Have a great week!
Carrie

An Update on the Eagle Cam and a Freebie

Eagle Cam Update

{If you have not tuned in yet, it is not too late. There are stunning photos on the site and even videos of the past 4+ weeks that have been captured through the Eagle Cam.}

Click here for the link to the Berry College Eagle Cam.

Also, the baby bald eagle made its debut on the Weather Channel on March 19th. Click here to see it.

The little eaglet (B3, they call it) is getting bigger by the day! His little feet and talons are growing quite quickly. Also, it is fascinating to see it raise up his wings as if he is trying to get comfortable or stretch them a bit. He is now 4 weeks old. The other egg ended up not being viable and the father buried it in the nest. It was interesting to see the eaglet during its 3rd week, because he grew too big to sleep under the mom or dad as far as we could tell.

An interesting fact about the Eagle Cam is that it switches to infrared technology at night time. It is helpful to be able to see the eagle family in the dark with no light source. When I turn on the eagle cam in the morning at school, the infrared is still on and switches over at about 7:30 EST or so. It is very cool for our technology buffs as well!

If you missed my first post about these eagles that have enriched our classroom as well as many others, please click here.

The writing response journal that I put together has been a big hit with my students and amongst the students in other classes. One teacher said that her kids were so excited about making the booklets that one boy even commented that "this is the best activity we have done all year!" Funny! Actually that teacher has lots of great activities that she does with her students. I think the drawing and writing aspect of observing these eagles via a live feed camera is what has mesmerized the students.

If you are interested in taking a look at this booklet, please click here to see the download. Below are a few pages that are included in this booklet.

 Color version

Black and white version ~ the students may color.

The students will illustrate each page and write about each aspect of the eagle family. 

This is a perfect introduction to life cycles in the spring. 

And now for the FREEBIE...

This organizer coincides with this booklet and your classes' research. It is actually part of the Keeping an Eagle Eye on the Eagle Cam download. 

I have included a version of the organizer for younger students in the freebie that is not in the booklet resource. 

Have a great day!

Carrie

The Eagle Cam ~ Our Window to Their World

The Eagle Cam at Berry College in Georgia is “all the buzz” down here in the south. Therefore I put together some pages for a book of observations and information about our newfound eagle friends. We are tempted to watch them around.the.clock!


Some of my students BEGGED me to pull it up on the Smartboard since they would often catch a glimpse of the eagles and eaglet in the room across the hall. This was actually a day or two after the first egg hatched. We have been watching them during our morning work, snack, and even during indoor recess on rainy days. Every once in a while the teacher from across the hall will run over to share her excitement about them as well.

This student cover page comes in black and white as well.

The books can actually be made as half-size books or full-page.
The pages are folded with the blank sides facing inward
so that the folds are on the edges for stability.  

These steps are really 4, 5, and 6. The last photo shows the stages altogether.

Please pretend like this is rotated correctly. 

My students are madly in love with the eagles! I looked for a resource on TPT for recording observations and I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for, so I made a file to match my ideas. (Maybe I am not a very good searcher.) Below is a picture of the resulting resource.

If you would like to look into the resource further, then please click here to view the pack.

{Note: I have also included different cover pages and links for

                   other eagle cams in different locations.}

This is a good way for the students to record their observations as well as facts that they have researched. We will do research on eagles using the following organizer that is also included in the pack.

It actually matches PebbleGo perfectly if you have access to that FABULOUS resource.

If you have not tuned in yet, here is the link.

www.berry.edu/eaglecam/

Once you tune in, you will likely fall in love as well.

There was also a live chat with Dr. Renee Carleton on March 5^th. The entire recording is linked on the March 6^th entry.

Our observations so far

We have learned that the eagle couple returned to Berry College in the fall of 2013. They made a nest and laid two eggs in January. One hatched on Saturday, February 22, 2014. He is the cutest little eaglet! The mom and dad take turns protecting their new little one by sitting on it along with the other egg at the same time. There are details about these particular eagles on the site in the section to the left of the live video stream. Also, there are some informative posts under the Eagle Cam section from those who are "in the know."

It has been neat to watch how the mom and dad care for their offspring. After the dad brings in prey for his family, it is fun to watch the mom or the dad biting off bits to feed the eaglet. One time we observed as the dad returned from his hunt with a fish that was still moving. Also, the mom sits on the eaglet and other egg for a while and later the dad comes in to take a turn. The baby eaglet is so cute how it bobs his head around like a human baby would. Also, the next week we saw the eaglet flapping its wings around a couple of times. Apparently the eaglet will not leave the nest until it is 12 weeks old. Hopefully we will get to see it before the last day of school!

I will post pictures of the students’ handiwork soon.

Have an awesome week! Tune in to the Eagle Cam if you can. 

~ Carrie