Fact or Fib

This week we started reading Nonfiction. We spent a lesson this week working on finding the most important facts in a story. Students took notes while they stumbled upon an important idea. Finally, they chose their top 4 to create a fact or fib on a notecard about each fact. Below are a few of the facts the students learned. Our brains were overflowing with knowledge about each topic we read. Great job Readers!

*The forehead and lower jaw play a part in echolocation.

*Ancient people only knew of 5 planets.

*Insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, ticks are all examples of arthropods.

*People use tanks to control uproars and crowds.

* Adelie penguins make loud squawking sounds.

*Reefs are covered by coral polyps.

*In 1861  Captain Jenks was shown off in Boston and New York.

* The odor of flowers is the oily substance.

*Orville Wright was born in 1871.

*Lightning strikes in hotter places.

*Sound makes things vibrate.

*Your body is made of many cells.

*Otters are excellent fishers.

*Long ago many people were interested in flying.

*A group of animals has backbones.

*148 tornadoes  raced across 13 states.

*Rattlesnakes eat 6 times a year.

*The polar regions extend for over 1,200 miles around the North Pole.

*The nucleus of an atom is in the center.

*Most earthquakes are too small to notice.

*The saguro cactus can live up to 200 yrs.

*Ben Franklin saved the town.

*Magnets attrack metal objects.

*The oldest maps are from the Ancient Desert Kingdom and made of clay.

*The female lion does most of the hunting.


WOW!  WE SURE LEARNED QUITE A BIT TODAY!