Mountain Day

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Posted by Alissa | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on October 5, 2018

We had such a wonderful Mountain Day on Thursday!  The First Grade walked over to Leverett Pond together.  While we were there, we had snack and read a story about all the beautiful things to be found in the woods.  Then we broke up into groups and explored the area, searching for “treasures” to bring back to school to put under our new digital microscope.  We practiced how to be quiet with a “coyote walk” so we could use our senses and take in all that was around us.  I wish I had pictures to show you!  But they were somehow lost when I uploaded them to the blog.  Please ask your child about our adventure.  It was great fun.  Here are a few of the treasures we brought back to school to share:

Back at school, Mr. Mwangi took that yellow mushroom and placed it under the digital microscope for us to look at up close.  All of a sudden, microscopic bugs started walking across the screen.  Bugs we never would have seen with the naked eye.  We were so surprised!!

This is Count.  He is our mascot who helped us learn about shadows this week in science, and how the position of the sun in the sky affects our shadow.  You should have seen some science journals come home this week where children wrote about our experiment with Count.

Our Writer’s Workshop is up and running!  The children are well on their way to becoming independent writers.  Right now we are learning strategies we can use to make our stories more interesting.  At Parent Teacher Conferences, I will share some of your child’s writing with you.

 A favorite part of writing time is “Author’s Chair”, where a few writers are chosen to come up in front of the room and share their writing on the big screen with the whole class.  Then the other writers offer “questions, comments or compliments” on the writing.  They love being able to share their work!

Hope you have a wonderful long weekend!

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