Earth Day!

Earth Day is on April 22.  We celebrated today and wish to enjoy more 'Earthly' activities come next week. 

F Kitty Math

Today was a CHALLENGE for a change

Working in groups counting Squares



Counting was fairly easy and fun





Students were encouraged to take turns and listen to one another. 
They monitored each other.



Challenge came when I asked to combine squares and recount. 
Tomorrow we get to redo but with individual sets of 1s,2s and 5s.
Our goal is to see how many DIFFERNT ways we can come up with combining and counting.

F-KITTY , Here us BUZZZZ...with knowledge!



Website

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Science F-Kitty in First Grade

There is no FCAT in first grade but I like to introduce F Kitty. 

This is where I tell the kids to shine and show what they know. 



We have been working and completing our Living Things/Plants Unit.  We seldom get to break open

any paint so we painted our hands and made our own classroom garden. 

 

We discussed the Needs of a Living Organisms and the main parts of a plant. 



I was able to make numerous and wonderful observations.  We all enjoyed this activity today. 
I had to beg everyone to please let me keep their work and display them.  They are so very proud of their
finished project. 





FKITTY (AKA...FCAT)

Hard to believe that we are in the middle of April.  Good luck to our 3rd,4th, and 5th grade students and not to mention all the rest of middle and high schoolers.  In First grade we do not have FCAT but I do dedicate this time going over test taking strategies, updating our Data Notebooks and familiarizing ourselves with upcoming expectations for 2nd grade in Reading, Writing and Math.  My personal goal is to provide time for individual "Data Chats".  Stay tune...more pictures will be added.

First Day Back!



We returned to discover our Celery Stalks had drank much of their water! 
We had fun exploring each one.  Ask your child to describe to you what it felt like? 



I cut the stalks and handed everyone their very own cross section
to inspect and draw their findings. 



Cool reads online

We Give Books - April

We enjoyed this site with Mrs. Rapp's 4th graders this fall when we read Llamas in Pajamas.  Enjoy!

What could we do if failure was not an option?

Watch "Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone" on YouTube