Eggs- March 22

This week we are so "Egg-cited." We will decide what comes from eggs, what doesn't.

We will use hard boiled eggs (for my sanity) to do some experiments. Such as floating/sinking, size, and weight against different items.

This was our Egg Graffiti wall:

We write down every letter of the alphabet and using books, the children try to find a theme word for each letter.

Seuss Book Study

Our Cat in the Hat glyph. Next our "Ticket to Leave" was to name a character from a Dr. Seuss book.
We did a Seuss book study. I used a sheet that the student had write the title down, the date read, and 3 hats. As a group we decided what each hat would mean. Like stars from the movies. 1 hat stood for an okay book, 2 star stood for good, and three hats (the highest) was awesome.

Water Cycle- March 15th

Topic: Water Cycle

I have tons of materials that I got from the California Water Department. It includes printed materials, posters and a DVD. The student's LOVED this DVD, they were actually glued very intently to it, amazing! This is the only video I have showed myself, but they have watched others from other staff members.

This paper turns into a booklet when you fold in half and cut on the dotted line.

Wind and Wind Power- March 8th

This week's topic is Wind and Wind Power. We used saltine crackers to make our own pinwheels. We made large pinwheels. We also made anamonmeters.

Storms- March 2

This week we learned about storms. The younger children completed a chart together about storms, the 2-5 grades did their own research.

Photos to follow.

Rainbows- February 22

Who would have thought that this would be the most difficult week for the teachers! We haveliterately no books on rainbows in our school. I talked with the other first grade teachers and no one had any books on rainbows. There were TWO in the library- and they weren't even that good. We did get a MSB one on rainbows, that was pretty good.

We did an experiment using a mirror, water, and a flashlight. The next day we used CD's, flashlights, and white paper to make personal rainbows. That really worked well.

I had the older children write books about rainbows, so we would have them for next year.

We listed things that were rainbow colors. I skipped Indigo this day, but did talk about it during the rest of days. Even the upper grades really got into it. I wasn't planning on doing that with them, but they were bummed out, so I couldn't say no! :)

Here is a chart that everyone added to. I drew and labeled things of every color (except indigo, because I didn't have that color marker!)

Weather- Feb 15th

This week was all about weather.

In K-1 we filled in a sheet with 6 different boxes about weather.

We made a bulletin board of weather words plus what we would wear and what we would do in that kind of weather.

Photos to follow.