Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Recycling Posters
Reuse Project
Multicultural Traditions
Ocean Picture
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories

Butterfly
 The butterfly was flying and flying.  Then the butterfly found a house.  It was a spacious house and the butterfly opened the door and the spider said what is your name.  The butterfly said Goldwing.  Okay Goldwing this is the hotel.  Okay I will live here.  When night came spider ate Gold wing.
AB
Independent

A Butterfly Soft
My butterfly lives with me and he is soft.  I like my butterfly and he likes to play every time.  And he was doing tricks.
Independent

Bute
I am a butterfly and my name is Bute.  I went for a walk and bird attacked and the bird said, "yum."  I live on a tree.  I eat nectar.  I fly with my wings.  I make a sound and it is like this, "flap, flap, flap, flap.
NR
Independent

Tweety Fly
 The Tweety Fly was flying and asked,  “Want to play?”  to his friend.  The friend said yes.  They stared to play.  They walked together and eat some flowers.  Tweety fly lives under the grass.  He doesn't make a sound.
TK
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Mikey
He wants his bug to go to Anchorage for a vacation.  It is a boy, a cool boy.  It eats frogs.  His bug is small and white. It doesn't make any noises, silent bug I guess.  His name is Mikey.  It flies thousands of miles he also walks.  It eats and eats.  He drinks water a gallon a day.  He wants to teach his bug to bite and kill other insects to eat.
NK
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Window
     Maria found a yellow butterfly sitting on the window.  Because she found her on a window Maria named the butterfly window.  She put the butterfly in a cage and the cage was put by the window because the butterfly like the sun.  The butterfly had friends.  Her friends were other butterflies.  They talked just like Maria.  The butterfly ate little spiders and bugs.  The butterfly loved living with Maria.
MM
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Princess
She wants her bug to go to Oregon on her vacation.  Her insect eats macaroni.  It is very big and black.  It makes owl noises.  It is a girl and her name is Princess.  It wiggles all the time and makes snake noises.
I sit home all the time on her couch it sweeps and cleans up sometimes.  It all so likes to drink a lot of water
FB
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Butterfly
     Butterflies like to eat honey and fight with ants.  Butterflies sometimes get caught in spiders webs of can drown in water.  Birds eat butterflies when they are hungry.  When you catch a butterfly and touch its wings the butterfly can't fly no more.  If you bring them inside a house, beat them with a stick and stomp on them they die.  Butterflies can fly long distances and do not like ding in the sun.  When it gets dark  butterflies go to their homes and sleep.  Little birds sometimes eat only half the butterfly and leave the rest to rot away.  They are really scared of us.  If you get in their way or scare them they will bite.
DM
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Sinker
     Hi!  My name is Markell and my pet's name is Sinker.  Today we are going to school.  We are going to listen to the teacher so we know who will go first outside.
     While I play on the merry-go-round, Sinker will eat the leaves of the flowers.  Then Sinker will fly and walk on the leaves and flowers.  He talks to other butterflies and me by flapping his wings and jumping.  This is how we know where he wants to go.
     Sinker likes to walk on my pencil.  Sinker lives under the sink in my classroom.  He likes to hide from me in the garbage, books and lamps.  Sinker likes to scare the teacher and eat her cookies.  Sinker and I like school.
MP
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Golden Wing
 I went for a walk.  I saw a bird.  It said you look delicious and I got away.  I went home in the ground and played with my sisters and brother.
VR
Independent

Dolphin
     Dolphin, the nice insect, was going swimming with her friends.  She got out of the swimming pool and she saw a squealer bug.  It was brown with four legs and big ears and sharp teeth.  The squealer bug said, I will eat you for lunch.” Dolphin said, “No!  Please don't eat me!”  She went to get food for him and then she brought the cat.  The cat smelled the squealer bug and then he ate the squealer.
     Next Dolphin went for a walk with her friends.  They walked through the green grass.  They found a white house with black spots.  It was a dog standing there and then Dolphin caught a little egg.  She brought it to her house and then the egg cracked.  There was a small butterfly.  She rode the butterfly.  She told her friends what happened with the egg.  Dolphin sat back on the butterfly and went home.
     The butterfly got bigger and then they became friends.  They lived happily ever after.
VB.
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Fire Bug
     Fire Bug doesn't have any legs.  It makes fire.  It lives in a tree.  The Fire Bug eats frogs.  It just flies around.  The Fire Bug lives in any tree.  It hates bees that live in the same tree.  The Fire Bug sees at night by the light that it makes.
DP
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Butterfly
     My butterfly is flying everywhere and the butterfly loves to sit on the flower and eat honey and bring it to the baby butterflies.  The baby butterflies like the honey.
FK
Independent

Old Lady
     Ernie found the moth in the town.  He named this moth Old Lady.  He took it home and put it in a cage.  When it got hungry Ernie fed it some plants, but he would not let him out of the cage.  The moth can walk and fly and also talked to other bugs.  When the moth talked to other bugs it asked for them to help him build a better home.  The moth was happy to live with Ernie.
EK
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Walking Bug
     She walks and walks.  She likes to work and she runs to her nest and made her nest and she made her baby and they eat everything in their nest and they like their house.
AK
Independent

    My butterfly will go on a trip to Anchorage.  It will live in a house.  It will eat chocolate chip cookies.  My butterfly will communicate with sizzling sounds and will fly very fast and the name of my bug is butterfly.  My butterfly will bake very good cookies and it will share with other bugs and clean up after herself and others.
NM
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Nice Bug
    My nice bug will go on a trip to Mexico and it will live in a small house.  My nice bug will steal pieces of bread from birds and eat it.  My Nice Bug will communicate with hissing sounds and it will move in a sluggish way.  My Bug's name is Nice Bug.
    My Nice Bug will bake bread and eat it himself and it will not share but along came a spider and stole some bread and my Nice Bug squashed him with a broom.
MM
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Neirefearul
     Neifefearul was walking home to his cave to eat leaves then a spider came out of the grass and said you will be my slave.  I aint, said Neirelfearul then he stung the spider and ran away home.
ZW
Independent

Squiggly Nose
     My bug always eats grass.  He uses his little teeth to eat the grass.  My bug live in the grass.  He lives in a house all by himself.  His house is by the water so he can drink the water.  He crawls like a snake to get from place to place.  Squiggly Nose has lots of friends.  In order to talk to his friends he flies his wing real fast.  He always is playing.  He always is playing.  He plays games like racing with his friends and he likes to swim.  Everything about him is squiggly, his nose, his antennas, everything.
RK
Dictated ideas to an adult.

The Skydiving Ant
 Red, the ant found his backpack with his parachute and stuff to go skydiving.  He looked down and saw a robbery on a plane.  He jumped wearing a parachute and he was holding a banana for lunch.
DM
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Twinkle the Caterpillar
    Twinkle the caterpillar was crossing the bridge.  She got attacked by a bird.  The bird was hungry and Twinkle hid like camouflage.  So the bird flew away and Twinkle crawled back home on the leaves.  The next day she was hungry so she crawled to get some leaves to eat.  She said, “Crick, Crick, Crick.”  To tell everyone to get up.
IR
Dictated ideas to an adult.

Sharp Nose Bug
 One day I was walking on the rocks.  My name is Sharp Nose Bug.  I heard a stomp and I turned around, it was a person.  The person saw me and ran inside to get a jar.  And then he came back outside and he put me in the jar.  And put some rocks inside the jar.  And put some rocks inside the jar.  Then they walked back inside their house and put me on the coffee table.  The coffee table was in his room.  Then he put some leaves so I could eat them.  Then he walked into their kitchen because he was hungry.  I had a sound so if I was in danger I could call my friends so I called them.  I went “cp, cp,” and they came.  They cracked the jar.  And I was free.  The boy came to see me.  Then he saw the mess he had to clean that mess before his mother came home from her vacation.  Then I was outside playing with my friends.
MR
Independent

Diceo
     My insect lives in a tree.  He has neighbors . . .
And a brother and baby sister along with a mom and a dad.  He eat leaves.  He was goin to his neighbors to play with them.  They decided to go down the tree and went into the ground.  Then they climbed up on a tire of a car.  The car started to drive and they all jumped off but one, who died.
 They told his parents.  His parents said, “Oh, Oh”  and tried to push him up, but they couldn't.
     The parents told the rest of the insects to play in the house, so they did.
 The insect and his friends talked to each other by screeching real loud with their mouths so they could her from the trees.
     Each insect has 6 legs that they walk on.  They drink water from on the leaves or they drink water from the river.  They now go with their parents so they don't get hurt.
NU
Dictated to and adult.

Wasp
 This bug lives in sea shells, and it eats leaves.  This bug steals food to eat.  The bug makes a sound like a bumble bee.  The color of this bug is black and white and has six legs the it walks on.  The name of this bus is wasp.
KR
Dictated to and adult.
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
 

Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Students were asked name their insect and to write an adventure story about it.  They were to include where their insect lives, what it eats, how it communicates, and how it moves.
Advanced
Story includes bug name, where it lives, what it eats, how it communicates, and how it moves.

Story is rated at or above 5 for conventions and ideas and content on the Primary Writing Rubric.

The story is written independently and is at least five sentences long.

Proficient
Story includes bug name, where it lives, what it eats, how it communicates, and how it moves.

Story is rated at or above 3 for conventions and ideas and content on the Primary Writing Rubric.

The story is written independently and is at least 3 sentences long.

Developing
Story includes bug name, where it lives, what it eats, how it communicates, and how it moves.

Ideas for the story are dictated to an adult.

The story is at least 5 sentences long.

Emerging
Story includes at least 2 of the following: bug name, where it lives, what it eats, how it communicates, and how it moves.

Ideas for the story are dictated to an adult.
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
 

Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Students were asked to invent an insect with the following characteristics: 3 body parts, 6 legs, 2 antennae, wings (optional).

Advanced
Insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae. Student may choose to include wings. Students used 6 different materials and a variety of colors and textures.

Proficient
Insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae.  Student used 5 materials and a variety of colors and textures.

Developing
Insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae. Student used 4 different materials and a variety of colors and textures.

Emerging
Insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae. Student used 4 different materials and a variety of colors and textures.

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
 

Solar Mobils


 
 
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Recycling Posters
Reuse Project
Multicultural Traditions
Ocean Picture
 

Solar Mobil Rubric
Students were asked to create a "Solar Mobil".  All objects on the mobil must reflect light.
Advanced
You have more than 5 different objects.  All objects reflect light.
Proficient
You have 5 different objects that reflect light.
Developing
You have four objects or less that reflect light.
Emergent
You have 2 objects that reflect light and some that do not.
 
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Seasons and Weather Class Projects

A Tree for All Seasons
Students made objects to put on a tree to show how a tree looks for each season.
 

Your Favorite Place Through the Year
Students made a painting of their favorite place and made changes for each season.
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Recycling Posters
Reuse Project
Multicultural Traditions
Ocean Picture
 

Your Favorite Place Through the Year Rubric
Advanced
Four pictures are painted of the same place.  One painting for each season and the seasons are in order.  At least two parts of the pictures are different in each season to show the season change.
Proficient
Four pictures are painted of the same place.  One painting for each season and the seasons are in order.  One part of the pictures are different in each season to show the season change.
Developing
Four pictures are painted of the same place.  At least two parts of the pictures are different in each season to show the season change.
Emergent
Four pictures are painted of the same place and there is some color differentiation.
 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Recycling Posters
Reuse Project
Multicultural Traditions
Ocean Picture

Students made posters to promote recycling and caring for the earth.  Posters were judged on neatness and original ideas.

 

Invent a Bug Projects and Stories
Invent a Bug Story Rubric
Invent A Bug Project Rubric
Light Projects
Light Project Rubric
Seasons and Weather
Seasons and Weather Rubric
Recycling Posters
Reuse Project
Multicultural Traditions
Ocean Picture
 

Students created a new toy by reusing found items.  This boat made from a plastic fruit container and yogurt cup won first place.

Multicultural Traditions
 
 

Ocean