Over the past week, we learned about our next biome, the desert. Desert areas are areas of dry land with special plants and animals that can survive without much water. An area that gets less than 10 inches of rainfall per year is considered a desert. Desert biomes are found on every continent in the world and they cover one fifth of the land on Earth. We studied the Sahara Desert, our world’s largest hot desert, and Antarctica, the world’s largest desert! We also closely studied animal and plant adaptations. We did many activities this week to go along with our desert theme! We started off our week by doing a desert fold and write to help us focus on some key vocabulary words related to deserts. Later in the week, we created our own 3D cactus and wrote some facts that we learned about the cactus. At the same time we were learning about the desert, the Arizona Fish and Game wardens shared some photos of a bald eagle who built it’s nest in a saguaro cactus! Be sure to check out the 1st graders work as well as the photos of the eagle!
