Happy Tuesday! The first graders used a grid to copy a picture of a cricket for morning work. Counting the squares and matching up the rows/columns takes care and patience. There will be another opportunity to try this with another picture on Thursday. One of our fun facts for the day was that there are 168 hours in a week. We also learned that fortune cookies were invented in the United States a little over 100 years ago.
During literacy, we read "Skunny-Wundy's Skipping Stone" in our Junior Great Books again. This time, I asked the students to read it while thinking about the wonderings they had about the story. We discussed some of these together after the reading. The first graders also wrote what the Stone Giant might have been thinking when he was filled with rage at the end of the story. Ask your child to give you his/her best Stone Giant impression while reading his thoughts!
Teddy is our Student of the Week and shared information about himself today. We learned that he enjoys designing and building things, he would like to be an astronaut, and he loves Star Wars. Teddy also likes being outdoors and helping animals. Teddy showed us space vehicles he has built, photos taken at the Kennedy Space Center, and his seashell and sand dollar collection. We were also treated to Teddy reading the funny book Presto! to us.
Students were given time to work on their autobiography projects followed by P.E with Ms. Graziano. After lunch and Quiet Time, I introduced a special number pattern to the class: o, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___. The students were challenged to determine what the next number should be. They shared what they thought the number was and why they thought so. Once we established that the next number was 13 and why, I provided the students with more information about the Fibonacci Sequence. I showed examples of the numbers in nature and then tasked the students with continuing the sequence on their own. Ask your child to tell you what he/she knows about Fibonacci numbers!
During literacy, we read "Skunny-Wundy's Skipping Stone" in our Junior Great Books again. This time, I asked the students to read it while thinking about the wonderings they had about the story. We discussed some of these together after the reading. The first graders also wrote what the Stone Giant might have been thinking when he was filled with rage at the end of the story. Ask your child to give you his/her best Stone Giant impression while reading his thoughts!
Teddy is our Student of the Week and shared information about himself today. We learned that he enjoys designing and building things, he would like to be an astronaut, and he loves Star Wars. Teddy also likes being outdoors and helping animals. Teddy showed us space vehicles he has built, photos taken at the Kennedy Space Center, and his seashell and sand dollar collection. We were also treated to Teddy reading the funny book Presto! to us.
Students were given time to work on their autobiography projects followed by P.E with Ms. Graziano. After lunch and Quiet Time, I introduced a special number pattern to the class: o, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___. The students were challenged to determine what the next number should be. They shared what they thought the number was and why they thought so. Once we established that the next number was 13 and why, I provided the students with more information about the Fibonacci Sequence. I showed examples of the numbers in nature and then tasked the students with continuing the sequence on their own. Ask your child to tell you what he/she knows about Fibonacci numbers!
During science, we visited with our painted lady butterflies again. This time, we focused more on the appearance of the butterflies and their behaviors. The students learned that three more adults had emerged from their chrysalid cases overnight. We were able to see the butterflies use their proboscises to eat. In the photo below, you can see how the at-home learners were given a close view of the butterflies at the bottom of their cage. We conducted an experiment to see what kind of food the butterflies would like best. Today's offerings were sliced oranges, strawberries, and carrots. Ask your child to tell you about the taste test and to show you his/her written/drawn observations from today.
Following a recess break, we continued learning about butterflies by creating models of their life cycles. I saw the in-person learners put thought and detail into their projects. Ask your child to talk you through each of the steps shown on his/her final product! Our final butterfly activity of the day was listening and responding to more True of False questions about butterflies and caterpillars.
Parents, please check the June 9 learning plan to prepare your child for classes on Wednesday. Thank you!