Liquids

We worked on our liquids unit and we created this bubble map:

 Our poem of the week:

We had liquid races. Here was our race between glue and shampoo:

Our school has excellent science kits! Pretty much everything is supplied for us in those kits. The four liquids that we had in this kit so far were green shampoo, white school glue, and oil. We will get two new liquids this coming week.

We learned some awesome RDW to go with our unit. We only had one spill- thank goodness it was just water and shampoo.

We tested to see what would happen to our liquid when water was added. The what happened when we mixed them together. They had so much fun and learned something along the way.

We got two new kinds of liquid.  We brainstormed what they thought they were.

We had green liquid before, so they were great thinkers that the red would be shampoo too :) The yellowish liquid no one guessed it, I don't even think they had ever even heard of it! It was corn syrup. :)

Seuss Day- 9 the Foot Book

Featured book today was: The Foot Book.

We are doing a shoe sort from Kim Adsit.


We wore funky shoes.
 We had kids wear a boot and shoe. One wore them on the wrong feet. I told him that he could only wear them weird for the photo, not all day long.

I have the American flag shoe at the bottom.

We have been talking about adjectives in class, so we described a student's funky shoe:

Seuss Day- 8 1 Fish 2 Fish

1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish was our featured book for today.

Here I am in my Seuss shirt.

We graphed our colored gold fish from What the teacher wants.
I bound them in a book and will place it in the library for others to read.

All but two children wore blue or red. :)

Seuss Day- 7 Shape of Me and Other Stuff

We got in shape with the book Shape of Me and other Stuff.

We chose a shape and created something out of that shape.

We ate Chex mix because it has a ton of shapes :)

Seuss Day- 6 Bartholomew

We tip our hats to Bartholomew Cubbins today.

We made a hat target map today about all of the hats we can think of :)

We ate Bugles- I think they look like hats!  For our stickers, I found sports hats and for the reading stickers I picked out tennis, volleyballs, baseballs!

This was the funniest thing- we could not make a circle with our backs in the circle! We had a great day. One young man in the lower left corner with a true Indiana Jones hat!! How cool was that???

Seuss Day- 5 Daisy Head Maisy

Daisy Head Maisy is our book of the day today.

We are going to design a flower on the tops of our heads.

We wore flowers- I know and warned the boys about the whole flower thing- but men wear Hawaiian shirts :)  One boy had on a Hawaiian shirt and another guy wore a flower lay :)

We ate flower cookies. Another staff member said that it kind of looked like a flower pot! 

Bling

In our first grade, we rotate students based on ability for math. I get a mixture of children from the other classes. I used regular craft sticks, glue dots, and jewels.

When the kids are doing an outstanding job, I award them with a jewel.  When I call on them, I place the stick under the ELMO and it really sparkles and they really "oooo and ahhhh."