We have been learning about insects. We created our own insects with cut paper. We even learned a song to help us identify the parts. See if you can hear it in the video.
Entries from September 29, 2009
The O.R.E.O. Project
September 22, 2009 · 6 Comments · classroom
We participated in an online project with classrooms all over the world. It is called the O.R.E.O. project. (Our Really Exciting Online Project) Each class averaged the number of oreos they could stack. You can look at the results here. Keep checking back because classes will be adding their results until October 16th.
September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 17, 2009 · 8 Comments · classroom
A pirate says “arrr” here is a video about three pirates by our favorite artist Eric Herman. Do you know any good pirate jokes, riddles or funny sayings? My husband and Mr. Smith (the principal at Dalton) pretended to be pirates the whole time we were on a trip one time. They would say things [...]
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Abby’s Beetle
September 16, 2009 · 18 Comments · classroom, Student posts
Abby brought a beetle to school. We enjoyed looking at it under our digital blue microscope.
Leave a Comment
September 11, 2009 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized
Hi! We are learning how to leave a comment on the blog. We are going to be teachers and teach our parents how to do it too! We really liked this cute song. Watch it and then tell about what you like best about First Grade in the comments.
Practice addition
September 8, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
We played this game today in math. The kids really liked it and wanted me to send the link. You can also access it through our portaportal. The portaportal site holds all the sites we will visit this year plus many more. If you play the game write in the comments what you liked and [...]
Wonderful Group of Kids
September 2, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We are having a fabulous start to school. You have wonderful kids and we are enjoying getting to know each other. Today we talked about words that start with the “r” sound. We wrote words on post it notes and then I typed them into “wordle”. We made a picture to share with you. Wednesdays [...]
