Rulers, Birthday, and Forces of Motion!

During math today we worked on measuring in both inches and centimeters.  We started by looking at both of them on the ruler and making observations about them.  As a class we decided that centimeters are much smaller than inches.  The kids decided to call them the BIG inches and the tiny centimeters :).  Then they each got to pick an item and measure it first in inches then next in centimeters.  They then had a chance to present them and tell both how many inches and how many centimeters the item was. 

 

 

Happy Belated 7th Birthday Rachel!!!

 

Push and Pull Challenge!

 

We started learning all about the forces of motion today and focused on pushes and pulls.  After a discussion about ways to move things we dove in to our big challenge.  Each team picked one item and they had to figure out a way to make the item travel 12 inches with out being touched by anyone!  At first they were annoyed and thought it would be impossible.  Then you could see some wheels turning and they started to think about other items they could use to either push or pull the item across the table.  In the end they were all successful and figured out ways to get the item to move 12 inches!

 

Winter Party FUN!!!

We had a wonderful Winter party!  Thanks so much to everyone who helped with brining items, helping during the party, or helping organize!  Everyone LOVED it and a great time was had by all.

 

Getting our graphing on!

We've been working hard on learning all about graphs.  Graphs are a great way to visualize data and make numbers a more visual concept.  They've loved surveying their friends, asking questions, and then taking the tally marks and turning them in to graphs.  Today we split in two groups and asked all the friends in the group what their favorite treat was from a list of three treats.  This activity had an added challenge which was to work together in your group and make sure everyone in the group had the same data!  Once all 10 friends in each group were surveyed the data could then be transposed to graph.  Everyone had a great time and did a great job of working together as a united group.

 

Taking inspiration from our field trip!

Our story for the week was Jack and the Wolf so we had fun doing some Readers Theater and acting it out!  We were very inspired by the Junie B. performance and wanted to see if we could act out a story like they did.  Everyone got to pick their roles and then while we read the story the actors and actresses played their roles!  I have to say we may have a few performers in our classroom :). 

 

 

Field Trip FUN!!!



We started our Friday morning with Carolyn's mother being our Mystery reader!  We LOVE mystery readers :).

 

 

Then we were field trip bound!  I'm not sure so many words are needed but let's just say Campus School 1st grade LOVED Junie B!

Santa Claus work!

We had some fun with the letters that make up the words Santa Claus!

 

Each table team got to take turns to make words using the letters.  The only rules were they had to be real words and they couldn't be Santa of Claus!  Each table did a great job and had so much fun with this literacy task!