Money and Mapping

The girls are happy to be back in school and enthusiastic about our studies of money and mapping.  We are identifying and sorting coins, and the girls were excited to see familiar presidents on various coins.  In our mapping unit, we are learning about our place on the map.  It will be fun to see on maps places we have lived and traveled!!

Investigating coins

Exchanging pennies for nickels

Sorting coins

 

Me on the Map



Artists at work creating maps

Mapping our bedrooms

 

Spring Break Journal Writing

Happy Spring!!

March Happenings

Happy March!  Here in First Grade, despite the weather, we are "plowing" ahead.  In Language Arts the girls are busy reading biographies and mysteries, learning about verbs, and celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss.  This week in Math we began a new unit on comparing numbers using terms like "greater than" and "less than."  The girls have enjoyed many hands on activities and games in this unit.  In Science we are wrapping up our study of weather with extreme weather, the water cycle, and wind.  

Partner Reading Biographies in Language Arts

Reading about famous women during Women's History Month

Verb Scavenger Hunt

The Verb Rap

Enjoying Dr. Seuss's books in honor of his birthday

Comparing numbers using UNO cards!

Working Together

Roll, Add, and Compare

Greater than and less than comparisons

Making wind spirals- Proving air is all around us 

Water travels in a cycle, yes it does!

Researching Extreme Weather Patterns

Extreme Weather Presentations

Sharing facts with Kindergarteners

100 Days Smarter!!

We celebrated our 100th day of school this week.  The girls are so proud of all that they have learned thus far this year.  We continue to observe and learn about weather.  Ask your daughter to sing The Water Cycle song for you.  In social studies, we are reading about historic heroes.  The girls really enjoy listening to and reading biographies.


Painting 100 dots for our 100th Day!

Look at our 100 dots......

 

Favorite weather tally

Reading graphs

 

Winter Wonderland

 

Working and playing together

 

Researching Extreme Weather

 

DEAR Time

 

 

French: 100 word challenge

In honor of the 100th day of school, each first grade class came up with a list of 100 words that they have learned in French.  All together the first grade girls came up with 150 words that they know so far.  I wonder if you can figure out what any of them mean.  Here is the list:

Art: Kindness Stories

First grade has begun an exploration of the human figure and how it can be used in art to tell stories. The girls have been sharing their own stories of a time when they showed kindness or were shown kindness. They identified the important action in the story by using a frozen pose with a partner. 

The girls also drew themselves using ovals, and are now constructing a jointed puppet using small, medium, and large ovals. This model will help them create narrative drawings and short films to tell their stories!

Telling a kindness story using frozen poses