Animal Adventures

Day 12:

Last day of Project SEEK!

We had so much fun the past few weeks, we are sad for SEEK to end! We celebrated the day with an ice cream and game party. 

Day 11:

Today we got ready for the Open House! We hung up all of our projects and cleaned the room. 

We are ready for parents to see what we have done at SEEK!

See everyone from 5pm-7pm tonight. 

Day 10:

Today we continued with our final projects! We spent the morning adding 3D elements to our habitat dioramas, finishing up our posters, and clay animals. 

We are really looking forward to showing off all of our fun projects during Open House on Thursday night. 

Day 9:

Today we continued with our final projects! We spent the morning dyeing and molding our clay to look like an animal. Then, we spent the afternoon making posters that will have interesting facts about our animals. 

We are SO excited to show them off during Open House on Thursday night. 

Day 8:

Today we started researching for our final projects! We all chose one animal from the habitat of our choice and used chromebooks to research cool facts about our animals. 

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 7:

Today we learned about the Arctic and the Antarctic! We discussed which animals lived in both places, what they eat, and what they need to survive. We conducted an experiment using the scientific method. Our experiment posed the question "will my hand be cold or warm in the blubber?" We made predictions, did our experiment, recorded our results, and then discussed what we learned about blubber. 

In the afternoon we made Venn Diagrams comparing and contrasting the Arctic with the Antarctic. 

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 6:

Today we had a field trip! We went to Wild River State Park. We met with naturalist Jordan who took us on a hike where we learned a lot about different plants and animals, including different types of woodpeckers! 

In the afternoon, we were joined by a group of wildlife firefighters. They showed us their gear and taught us a lot of fun information about their jobs. 

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 5:

Today we started off in the rainforest by finishing up our giant rainforest murals! We added our animals - the murals turned out awesome. 

Then, we moved into learning all about food chains - we discussed producers, consumers, decomposers, carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, predators, prey! After snack we played a producer, consumer, and decomposer game outside, and then came back inside to make our own food chains. 

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 4:

Week 2 is off to a great start!

Today we ventured to the rainforest. We learned all about the 4 layers of the rainforest, including the animals that call it home. For art today, we first chose one animal to draw and then watercolor. After snack we went outside to play an animal game!

We worked together in groups in the afternoon to create two giant rainforest murals! We will add our water colored rainforest animal to our mural!

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 3:

Day 3 was so much fun!

Today we stayed in the ocean, but traveled to the coral reef! In the morning, we finished our ocean layer paintings from yesterday. Then, we learned all about what a coral reef is made of, which animals live here, and we watched a video about the Great Barrier Reef. We made a scuplture today during art of coral reefs. Students spent time cutting up pool noodles to use as coral. They also added fish and different species to their coral! 

See photos below of how we spent our day! 

Day 2:

Day 2 was a success!

We traveled to the ocean today. We learned all about the different layers of the ocean and which animals live in each layer. For science, we created our very own mini layers of the ocean in water bottles using water, oil, and a little food coloring. For art, we also created our own layers of the ocean painting, complete with water colored animals in each layer. 

It was a super fun day today!

Day 1:

Yay! Our first day at SEEK 2025 went so well! We started off our day by getting to know each other and our favorite animals. We took a tour of the school to get familiar with our surroundings, made some class posters, and then started to learn about habitats in the afternoon! 

Take a look below at some of the fun we had today!

Welcome Letter:

Hello all,

My name is Ellie McElhenny (Ms. Mac) and my co teacher is Kirsten Mace (Ms. Mace). Together we will be teaching your child during Project SEEK in the class ‘Animal Adventures’. We are SO excited to meet everyone and have an awesome, inquisitive, artistic, and scientific time! If you need to get in touch with us our emails are: elliemcelhenny@gmail.com or kirsten.mace@gmail.com .

We ask that you have your child please bring the supplies listed below:

• Box (amazon or shoebox) - this will be for our final habitat project

• Scissors 

• Pencil

• Markers or colored pencils

• Glue bottle 

• Glue stick 

Snack - each day at Project SEEK we have time set aside for a snack. You can have your child bring a snack or there is a class that sells small food items in the cafeteria, if you would like to have your child bring money. The snack prices typically range from 25 cents to 1.00$.

Our field trip is on June 18th and we will be going to the Wild River State Park and learning with a naturalist! It is from 8:30 to 2:30 so please bring a packed lunch. You will be billed through Paypal 10$ to cover the field trip cost - this will occur within the first week of classes.

If any parents would like to be a chaperone for the field trip please contact us by email by June 10th if you are interested. 

Looking forward to Project SEEK 2025!

• Ms. Mac & Ms. Mace