Big news. Zoe’s number scroll is officially taller than her and almost as tall as me. She’s well into the 1000’s writing her numbers and today she discovered the number 1,111. We all talked about the place value of each number. There has been great math thinking happening in our classroom lately and this is a fun example of that!
First Graders came in this morning to this invitation waiting for them. Tomorrow will be a fun day! Any contributions of healthy snacks for our “Tea Party” would be greatly appreciated!
Yesterday in Science Lab Nancy gave the kids a cut out of a paper bear and some paper clips. Their assignment was to figure out how to balance the bear on the string using the materials they had. After many attempts and a few hints from Nancy, they figured it out!
First Grade felt like a really high tech place to be today! We were lucky enough to have Julie, a marine biologist from Washington (who also happens to be Henry and Jackson’s aunt!), visit us via Skype to do a presentation on the amazing animals she has seen and studied. She spoke to the students and answered their many questions while going through a Power Point presentation that had beautiful pictures and a video of many underwater animals. She’s even been swimming with sharks! Wow! It was inspiring to see and learn about the many adventurous things she’s done as a marine biologist. We learned a lot from her fun presentation.
!st grade is a happy place to be on Valentine’s Day. I wish you could have felt the excitement as the children began to open up and read their Valentines and Kindness Notes from friends. We also made very special Valentines for our parents. Lots of lovely cards will be coming home in backpacks today.
