In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday on Friday, two of our friends brought in some of their Seuss favorites. Andrew read us the very appropriate Wacky Wednesday. Edy shared The Sleep Book, which after lunch made us all want to take a nap! We love when our friends read to us!
In honor of Read Across America/Dr. Seuss week we read, The Lorax. We were detectives and tried to use clues to figure out what the theme was. Here's what we came up with: be mindful / think about more than just you / everything is connected it's NOT all about money / don't use more than your share protect the nature / do something for what you care a whole awful lot about Take a look at what we each care a lot about!ACT 1Look at the picture below. What do you notice? What do you wonder? ACT 2We're going to need some more information to solve that problem. Does this help? ACT 3Well...there were 4 ping pong balls in a cup and 35 cups in the container. That means we have to do some multiplication or a whole lot of addition...
4 x 35 = 140
Check out the opposite situation. With a vacuum pump the air is taken out and you create a low air pressure environment. The marshmallow now has room to expand, but the container is really hard to open...until you let the air back in.
ACT 1Look at the picture below. What do you notice? What do you wonder? ACT 2We're going to need some more information to solve that gigantic problem. Does this help? ACT 3Well...there were 338 beads in a cup and 46 cups in the bin. That means we have to do some multiplication or a whole lot of addition...
338 x 46 = 15548 Today was all hands on, all day! And it was great. We took the water beads from Ella's science experiment yesterday and tried to figure out how many there were in that gigantic bucket. We did a lot of counting, a lot of adding, and even a lot of multiplying! More on this coming soon.
What's in blood? How do we stop bleeding?
What an amazingly blue, perfect, snowy, fast, and wonderful day on cross country skis. We slipped, we slid, we balanced, we fell down, but most of all we worked together and become better friends and more confident skiers. Thank you to the volunteers who made it possible.
First grade is hard work and we were feeling kind of stuck in a writing rut. Maybe you know of the feeling as "writer's block." Anyway, we decided as a class that we needed some time to write fiction stories and take a walk on our creative sides. We read a few fiction stories and compared the plot lines. We noticed they all have great characters, interesting settings, lots of stuff that happens, a problem that needs to be solved, and eventually a solution.
We used this cool ice cream sundae to start mapping out our ideas with the same story elements. We can't wait to start writing tomorrow! Stay tuned, these are going to be good!
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