Science journals.
Andrew is cutting a flower open.
Luke's writing down something.
Making words.
There is a flower!
January 31, 2012
Photographer Joe's Update!
Here are the photos that Joe has selected, along with his captions!
Science journals.
Andrew is cutting a flower open.
Luke's writing down something.
Making words.
There is a flower!
Science journals.
Andrew is cutting a flower open.
Luke's writing down something.
Making words.
There is a flower!
January 27, 2012
Weekly News!
Although it was a short week, the first graders worked so hard that it seemed like we were able to get a week’s worth of work in!
This week, Joe was our class photographer, and he captured some great photo opportunities! Unfortunately, this afternoon was so busy with our science experiment that we weren't able to get his favorite photos or captions from him. (Completely Mrs. Glaser's fault- it slipped my mind!) On Monday, I will update with his captions and possibly a few other photos if he isn't happy with the ones I've selected. But in the mean time, I've selected a few of my favorites from the photos he took!
Peter records his observations after dissecting his flower during Science.
Mick is carefully dissecting his flower to discover what is inside!
Luke and Lily examine roots and draw what they see.
Luca is thoughtfully working on his grammar page for the day, determining which verb he should be using in the sentence, "is" or "are".
Leilani uses the iPad during our phonics lessons to move letters around to make new words.
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Our Families”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on long /i/ words. During grammar instruction, we learned about the verbs “is” and “are” and that we use “is” when talking about one noun and “are” when talking about more than one noun. As we read this week, we made predictions and asked questions about the selection throughout the reading. This helps us to really stay engaged in the story and keep our minds active and thinking, which aids our comprehension of what we have read. We were also able to jump back in to Guided Reading groups, where students practiced their fluency by using the iPad to record themselves reading, then listening to their reading. Next, they re-recorded themselves reading the same book and listened to both in a row to see how much their reading of the selection improved after our work in the Guided Reading group. Hopefully this helps them to see why it is important to read a book several times to practice being a fluent, or smooth reader, using expression and pausing at appropriate places! Looking ahead to next week, our Treasures theme will be “Family Time”. As we read the selections for the week, we will continue to practice generating questions, and we will also identify the characters and setting of each of our selections. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on triple consonant blends (spl-, str-, scr-). Our grammar lessons will focus on contractions with the word “not”.
Writing
This week in writing, we began publishing our How-to writing using the Story Kit app on the iPads. The students did a nice job adding the pages necessary to type their directions. Next week, as some students finish up their writing, those who are finished typing their sentences will go back and use the cameras on the iPads to take pictures of each step being demonstrated.
Math
Our math lessons this week began with a study of the facts table, and a review of +0, +1, and doubles strategies. We then learned how our doubles facts can assist us even more when solving doubles +1 or doubles +2 problems. For instance, if you know that 5+5=10, then you know that 5+7 would just be two more than 10. These shortcuts are helpful for some, but confusing for others, and that’s okay! It’s important for students to find what strategies work for them and use those strategies, and not to try and use each strategy we introduce one hundred percent of the time. Next, we learned how to complete “What’s My Rule?” function boxes, and these first graders are starting to get very good at determining the rule! We also played a game called “Beat the Calculator”, where students discovered that many times, our brains are much faster at recalling math facts than calculators are at solving them! I think this really empowered them, and hopefully made them realize how important it is to commit those addition facts to memory! After our regular math work was completed, we continued to use the iPad apps I mentioned last week for fact practice, and we also explored coin counting apps. The coin counting apps that we used this week were Coin Crazy, Coin Math, and Coins Genius. Next week, we will begin the week with a review of Unit 5 using the Mimio Vote system. On Tuesday, we will take our Unit 5 test, followed by our mid year assessment on Wednesday to see just how far we have come since the beginning of the year! On Thursday, we will begin Unit 6!
Science & Social Studies
Focusing again this week on living things, the first grade scientists examined roots and learned that roots are important to a plant not only to collect water and nutrients from the soil, but also to hold them upright and in place. We also dissected flowers to observe the various parts of a flower and what purposes they serve in keeping the flower alive. Next week, we will dissect celery and learn about mold to wrap up our study of living things!
As you’ve probably noticed in my two most recent posts, (but are worth mentioning again!), don’t forget to send gym shoes on Wednesdays and Fridays for P.E. class. Also, if you happen to have any books to contribute to the student council book drive, we would be happy to collect those! See below for details.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs. Glaser ☺
This week, Joe was our class photographer, and he captured some great photo opportunities! Unfortunately, this afternoon was so busy with our science experiment that we weren't able to get his favorite photos or captions from him. (Completely Mrs. Glaser's fault- it slipped my mind!) On Monday, I will update with his captions and possibly a few other photos if he isn't happy with the ones I've selected. But in the mean time, I've selected a few of my favorites from the photos he took!
Peter records his observations after dissecting his flower during Science.
Mick is carefully dissecting his flower to discover what is inside!
Luke and Lily examine roots and draw what they see.
Luca is thoughtfully working on his grammar page for the day, determining which verb he should be using in the sentence, "is" or "are".
Leilani uses the iPad during our phonics lessons to move letters around to make new words.
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Our Families”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on long /i/ words. During grammar instruction, we learned about the verbs “is” and “are” and that we use “is” when talking about one noun and “are” when talking about more than one noun. As we read this week, we made predictions and asked questions about the selection throughout the reading. This helps us to really stay engaged in the story and keep our minds active and thinking, which aids our comprehension of what we have read. We were also able to jump back in to Guided Reading groups, where students practiced their fluency by using the iPad to record themselves reading, then listening to their reading. Next, they re-recorded themselves reading the same book and listened to both in a row to see how much their reading of the selection improved after our work in the Guided Reading group. Hopefully this helps them to see why it is important to read a book several times to practice being a fluent, or smooth reader, using expression and pausing at appropriate places! Looking ahead to next week, our Treasures theme will be “Family Time”. As we read the selections for the week, we will continue to practice generating questions, and we will also identify the characters and setting of each of our selections. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on triple consonant blends (spl-, str-, scr-). Our grammar lessons will focus on contractions with the word “not”.
Writing
This week in writing, we began publishing our How-to writing using the Story Kit app on the iPads. The students did a nice job adding the pages necessary to type their directions. Next week, as some students finish up their writing, those who are finished typing their sentences will go back and use the cameras on the iPads to take pictures of each step being demonstrated.
Math
Our math lessons this week began with a study of the facts table, and a review of +0, +1, and doubles strategies. We then learned how our doubles facts can assist us even more when solving doubles +1 or doubles +2 problems. For instance, if you know that 5+5=10, then you know that 5+7 would just be two more than 10. These shortcuts are helpful for some, but confusing for others, and that’s okay! It’s important for students to find what strategies work for them and use those strategies, and not to try and use each strategy we introduce one hundred percent of the time. Next, we learned how to complete “What’s My Rule?” function boxes, and these first graders are starting to get very good at determining the rule! We also played a game called “Beat the Calculator”, where students discovered that many times, our brains are much faster at recalling math facts than calculators are at solving them! I think this really empowered them, and hopefully made them realize how important it is to commit those addition facts to memory! After our regular math work was completed, we continued to use the iPad apps I mentioned last week for fact practice, and we also explored coin counting apps. The coin counting apps that we used this week were Coin Crazy, Coin Math, and Coins Genius. Next week, we will begin the week with a review of Unit 5 using the Mimio Vote system. On Tuesday, we will take our Unit 5 test, followed by our mid year assessment on Wednesday to see just how far we have come since the beginning of the year! On Thursday, we will begin Unit 6!
Science & Social Studies
Focusing again this week on living things, the first grade scientists examined roots and learned that roots are important to a plant not only to collect water and nutrients from the soil, but also to hold them upright and in place. We also dissected flowers to observe the various parts of a flower and what purposes they serve in keeping the flower alive. Next week, we will dissect celery and learn about mold to wrap up our study of living things!
As you’ve probably noticed in my two most recent posts, (but are worth mentioning again!), don’t forget to send gym shoes on Wednesdays and Fridays for P.E. class. Also, if you happen to have any books to contribute to the student council book drive, we would be happy to collect those! See below for details.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs. Glaser ☺
January 26, 2012
Student Council Book Drive
Starting next week, Student Council will be partnering with the Arlington Heights United Way Chapter by collecting gently-used children and adult books. This book drive will take place January 30th and run though February 10th. Let's work together to give others the gift of reading! Now is a great time to clean out your home library and help others in need. Thank you for supporting our community!
January 24, 2012
A message from Mr. Gries!
Don't forget to send your child's gym shoes with them on Wednesdays and Fridays when we have P.E. With all of the snowpants and boots and other winter gear, I know it is tough to remember one more thing, but starting next week, if the students are not wearing gym shoes they will not be allowed to participate in P.E. Thanks so much for your support!
January 20, 2012
Weekly News!
We were off to a thrilling start this week, as we learned on Tuesday that Mo Willems had written back to us! If you remember back to our letter writing unit, we had written letters to Mo and sent them off, crossing our fingers and waiting for a reply. We received a letter in the mail from him that answered questions about his life as an author, as well as two posters for our classroom! He autographed them, one reading “Yay Mrs. Glaser’s Class!” and the other, “Dryden Kids Rock!” with a drawing of Piggie from his wildly popular Elephant & Piggie books. We were so excited to hear from him!!
This week, Leilani was our class photographer, and she was snapping away, capturing her favorite moments from the week! Here are a few of her photos, along with her captions:
"Kate was doing the project on the iPad with our science experiment. She's really good at the iPad."
"Lily and Andrew were playing our math game. We rolled the dice to see what number was rolled the most times."
"Katerina is treating the iPads really nicely."
"Isabel is concentrating on her math work."
"We were learning about a long time ago, an artist named Rembrandt, and shadows and lighting. Hey! Kind of like in Treasures!"
"Ellie was drawing a portrait of a very good friend Luciana because they were partners."
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Me and My Shadow”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on consonant digraphs (ch-, wh-, -tch). During grammar instruction, we learned about past tense verbs. As we read this week, we identified the main idea of the selections, as well as the details that support the main idea. This week during small group time, I completed the AIMSweb testing to measure the students’ growth from the fall. This, combined with the running records to determine guided reading levels, gives me a well rounded picture of where each student is performing in reading, and will help me to set goals for working with each of them. Looking ahead to next week, our Treasures theme will be “Our Families”. As we read the selections for the week, we will practice generating questions and making predictions to help us think about what is happening in the text. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on long /i/ words. Our grammar lessons will focus on when we use the word “is” (when talking about one person, place, or thing) and when to use the word “are” (when talking about more than one person, place, or thing).
Writing
This week in writing, we began our How-To writing about our individual topics. The students first brainstormed four ideas of things they might be able to write about. We evaluated these choices and decided which one we would like to pursue. Next, we planned out our steps, and edited our steps to make sure they made sense for our readers. Students partnered up to practice acting out the steps of one another’s writing, and it was very eye opening for some of the students! They realized that they needed to add many more details before someone could successfully carry out the steps of their directions! Next week, we will use the Story Kit app on the iPads to publish our writing. The students practiced typing sentences on the iPads this week using the Pages app in preparation for the typing portion of our publication!
Math
Our math lessons this week tied into addition and subtraction skills. We solved number stories, practiced addition facts with dice sums, and learned how doubles facts can help us to solve many types of addition problems. Now is a great time to start committing those doubles facts to memory! (1+1, 2+2, 3+3, etc) The students really enjoyed having the iPads during math time each day, as they used the Doodle Buddy app to work out problems, draw pictures to solve problems, or write number models to go along with the number stories. Having those tools right at their fingertips was so motivating for them to think about the problems, work them out, and explain how they arrived at their answers. When we finished our regular math work each day, we also had time to explore some of the fabulous math apps we have on the iPads. Since our focus for the week was on addition and subtraction practice, we focused mainly on apps that contained some sort of fact practice. Some of the students’ favorites in this category included: Math Bingo, Math Drills, Sums Stacker, Under Sea Math, and Piggy Math HD. Next week, we will review the fact strategies that have been introduced thus far, learn the “What’s My Rule?” function boxes, where students study the pattern of numbers to determine what action is being performed on the numbers each time. For instance, the rule may be count up by 2s, -3, +10, etc. Finally, we will practice applying these rules, so the students will be given function boxes and rule and they will figure out what number will be produced after performing the rule.
Science & Social Studies
Focusing again this week on living things, the first grade scientists explored plants by dissecting and examining lima beans. We learned that seeds have a seed coat, as well as stored food and an embryo inside. We discovered that a seed germinates and a sprout begins to grow into a new plant, so all of these parts are necessary for the seed to grow. During our dissection, we used the Explain Everything app on the iPads to take a picture of the dissected bean and label the parts. We also composed a sentence to tell one thing we wondered or one thing we discovered during our experiment. This was a neat way for the students to organize their thoughts and create a meaningful product to document their observations and learning. Next week, we look forward to examining roots and celery to learn more about the parts of plants and the purposes they serve!
Art Appreciation
Today, Luca's mom joined us for another art appreciation lesson! The students studied the painting, "The Night Watch" and learned about Rembrandt, along with some important techniques he used, like changing his colors to reflect the shading and light in his paintings. We also learned that he painted portraits, or paintings of people. Next, we had the opportunity to draw portraits of our seat partners, ourselves, or a friend or family member. They added some nice details to these drawings! What a well rounded group of talented kids we have!
Enjoy the snow this weekend and stay warm!!
Mrs. Glaser ☺
Royal Reader!
This week, Katerina's mom surprised us as our Royal Reader! She read two stories, "I Have to Go!" by Robert Munsch and "Cock-a-Doodle-Hooooo!" by Mick Manning. The children giggled up a storm during the first book, as many could relate to the concept of having to use the restroom at the worst possible times, and enjoyed the beautiful illustrations and charming story during the second book, about an owl who is trying to fill the shoes of a rooster. Thanks so much for coming in to read to us!
January 13, 2012
Weekly News!
What an exciting week we’ve had in first grade! I’m sure the kids would tell you that the best part of this week was that they finally got to play in the snow! On that note, please make sure to send snowpants, boots, and extra socks with your child on days when there is snow on the ground. We do go outside unless temperatures prevent us from doing so, so they are often very snowy and/or wet when they come inside! Also, don’t forget to label those items with your child’s name, as we have many items (snowpants in particular) that are very similar looking, if not exactly the same! Thank you so much for your assistance with this!
This week, Luca was our class photographer, and he took some great pictures! Here are a few of his favorites, along with his captions:
"This is our word wall. We keep putting up more and more words!"
"When we observed the fish, Mick did this drawing. I thought it was really cool!"
"My friend Joe says hi."
"Luke likes world peace like Martin Luther King."
"Mick and Emily are observing the fish."
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Kids Around the World”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on /s/ blends at the beginning of words. During grammar instruction, we learned about present tense verbs, and how many times, we must add an –s or an –es to a verb when using the present tense form. As we read this week, we compared and contrasted the different cultures and customs, as well as the activities of daily life for children around the world. It was so neat to have students in our class jump into the discussion and share what they knew about their own cultures, or about different countries that they have visited. What a wealth of worldly information we have right in our own classroom! This week I assessed each child’s reading level and have shifted their reading groups to match their levels. Next week, we will continue assessing each child’s reading progress as we begin AIMSweb testing. This is the testing that we do in the fall, winter, and spring where the children do timed reading passages. This data will be shared with you at spring conferences so you can see the growth between the fall score and the winter score. Looking ahead to next week, our Treasures theme will be “Me and My Shadow”. As we read the selections for the week, we will practice identifying the main idea and details. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on consonant digraphs (ch-, wh-, -tch). Our grammar lessons will continue to focus on verbs, this time specifically on past-tense verbs.
Writing
This week in writing, we learned about How-To writing. The students each wrote a step by step account for building a snowman (what impeccable timing the weather had!), and their directions are on display in the hallway to share our expertise! Next week, we will begin brainstorming topics for other topics we could write a How-To article about. Each child will then pick one topic to write about, and we will be composing a How-To article using the iPads, which the first grade will be using for four weeks for classroom projects as well as day to day use.
Math
Our math lessons this week all revolved around one theme: comparing. We compared numbers using animal weights, we compared numbers in number stories, and we compared coin collections. The students are becoming more and more familiar with the more than, less than, and equal to signs. We continue to practice place value, which ties in nicely with this concept as well. At home, you can reinforce these concepts by playing the games sent home from school, or by using the online versions of first grade math games on Everydaymathonline.com. If you need your child’s login or password info again, please don’t hesitate to ask! Next week, we will use our addition and subtraction skills to solve number stories, practice addition facts with dice sums, and learn how doubles facts can help us to solve many types of addition problems.
Science & Social Studies
This week, our first grade scientists were at it again as we observed fish! The students identified the parts of a fish body, and were able to infer how these various body parts were helpful to a fish’s survival. Through our observations, we were able to see a fish’s gills in action, which helped us understand how they breathe, and how human beings are alike and how they are different from fish. Next week, our science focus will continue to be on living things, this time examining roots and celery to learn more about plants. We did work in some Social Studies time this week as well, learning about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in preparation for our holiday on Monday. The students came up with their own dreams after learning about Martin’s dream. I will close by sharing some of their dreams (I’m correcting their spelling as I type so they are easier to read, but you will see when their dreams come home that the invented spelling makes them that much more adorable!):
-I have a dream… that no one would go to fight but we shall go in peace.
-I have a dream… that no kids fighted, and treat others kindly.
-I have a dream… that I wish everybody was happy forever and ever.
-I have a dream… that everyone lived in a house.
-I have a dream… that people wouldn’t waste so much paper.
-I have a dream… that wars would be over.
Mrs. Glaser ☺
This week, Luca was our class photographer, and he took some great pictures! Here are a few of his favorites, along with his captions:
"This is our word wall. We keep putting up more and more words!"
"When we observed the fish, Mick did this drawing. I thought it was really cool!"
"My friend Joe says hi."
"Luke likes world peace like Martin Luther King."
"Mick and Emily are observing the fish."
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Kids Around the World”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on /s/ blends at the beginning of words. During grammar instruction, we learned about present tense verbs, and how many times, we must add an –s or an –es to a verb when using the present tense form. As we read this week, we compared and contrasted the different cultures and customs, as well as the activities of daily life for children around the world. It was so neat to have students in our class jump into the discussion and share what they knew about their own cultures, or about different countries that they have visited. What a wealth of worldly information we have right in our own classroom! This week I assessed each child’s reading level and have shifted their reading groups to match their levels. Next week, we will continue assessing each child’s reading progress as we begin AIMSweb testing. This is the testing that we do in the fall, winter, and spring where the children do timed reading passages. This data will be shared with you at spring conferences so you can see the growth between the fall score and the winter score. Looking ahead to next week, our Treasures theme will be “Me and My Shadow”. As we read the selections for the week, we will practice identifying the main idea and details. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on consonant digraphs (ch-, wh-, -tch). Our grammar lessons will continue to focus on verbs, this time specifically on past-tense verbs.
Writing
This week in writing, we learned about How-To writing. The students each wrote a step by step account for building a snowman (what impeccable timing the weather had!), and their directions are on display in the hallway to share our expertise! Next week, we will begin brainstorming topics for other topics we could write a How-To article about. Each child will then pick one topic to write about, and we will be composing a How-To article using the iPads, which the first grade will be using for four weeks for classroom projects as well as day to day use.
Math
Our math lessons this week all revolved around one theme: comparing. We compared numbers using animal weights, we compared numbers in number stories, and we compared coin collections. The students are becoming more and more familiar with the more than, less than, and equal to signs. We continue to practice place value, which ties in nicely with this concept as well. At home, you can reinforce these concepts by playing the games sent home from school, or by using the online versions of first grade math games on Everydaymathonline.com. If you need your child’s login or password info again, please don’t hesitate to ask! Next week, we will use our addition and subtraction skills to solve number stories, practice addition facts with dice sums, and learn how doubles facts can help us to solve many types of addition problems.
Science & Social Studies
This week, our first grade scientists were at it again as we observed fish! The students identified the parts of a fish body, and were able to infer how these various body parts were helpful to a fish’s survival. Through our observations, we were able to see a fish’s gills in action, which helped us understand how they breathe, and how human beings are alike and how they are different from fish. Next week, our science focus will continue to be on living things, this time examining roots and celery to learn more about plants. We did work in some Social Studies time this week as well, learning about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in preparation for our holiday on Monday. The students came up with their own dreams after learning about Martin’s dream. I will close by sharing some of their dreams (I’m correcting their spelling as I type so they are easier to read, but you will see when their dreams come home that the invented spelling makes them that much more adorable!):
-I have a dream… that no one would go to fight but we shall go in peace.
-I have a dream… that no kids fighted, and treat others kindly.
-I have a dream… that I wish everybody was happy forever and ever.
-I have a dream… that everyone lived in a house.
-I have a dream… that people wouldn’t waste so much paper.
-I have a dream… that wars would be over.
Mrs. Glaser ☺
January 10, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATERINA!
We hope you have a super birthday and we cannot wait to celebrate with you at school!
January 6, 2012
Weekly News!
We rang in the New Year with excitement in first grade this week! It was so nice to see all of my spunky first graders again after such a long break without them. I was blown away by the number of lost teeth and haircuts we had over the break- I almost didn’t recognize my class! As always, we jumped right in and got down to business- see what we have been focusing on below!
Reading
This week our Treasures theme was “Being Friends”. Our spelling and word work lessons focused on the long /a/ sound that is formed with a bossy –e at the end. During grammar instruction, we learned that a verb is an action word, and practiced identifying those in sentences. As we read this week, we made predictions about what might happen next in the story. We are starting to realize that it’s not important that our predictions are actually correct, but that we are thinking about what’s happened in the story, along with what we already know to make a thoughtful prediction. Even if our predictions do not come true, we are still successful predictors if we have thought about the story and made a prediction that makes sense with the story. This week we also met with our Guided Reading groups for the last time before assessments begin next week. After I finish assessing all of the students, then our new groups will be formed. Your child may be reading at a different reading level, and/or with different students, but the routine stays the same! I am looking forward to seeing how much growth the students have made since our last assessment period before fall conferences! In Treasures instruction next week, our theme will be “Kids Around the World”. As we read the selections for the week, we will practice comparing and contrasting various aspects of the text. Our spelling and word work lessons will focus on /s/ blends (sl-, sn-, sp-). Our grammar lessons will continue to focus on verbs, this time specifically on present-tense verbs. As I mentioned earlier, during small group time, I will be assessing the children individually to determine their new reading levels, so you will not see Guided Reading books coming home.
Writing
First graders kicked off their writing in 2012 by making a few resolutions for the new year, and reflecting on what they accomplished in 2011. Next week, we will compare two versions of the story, “The Mitten”. One version is a popular one that many of them are familiar with, written by Jan Brett. The other version is an older one that many have not seen, by Alvin Tresselt. The students will choose which version is their favorite and explain why they made that choice. Next week we will also begin working on “How-to” writing during our Writing Workshop time.
Math
We began Unit 5 in math this week with a heavy focus on place value. This is a tricky concept, but one that the first graders do pick up on and enjoy after some practice! We have been working diligently with our base ten blocks, first practicing with the tens and ones places, then moving on to hundreds, tens, and ones. Finally, we learned about using the greater than, less than, and equals signs to compare numbers. We played a game called Base 10 exchange, which helped us practice trading in 10 cubes for 1 long, or grouping our ones and moving them to the tens place. Next week, we will start with an Explorations lesson, where we will get hands on practice to reinforce these concepts. Then, we will continue our practice with comparing numbers using animal weights, and work with more than and less than number stories. We will conclude the week by tying all of these concepts together with comparison number stories.
Science
Our study of living things continued this week, picking up where we left off from before winter break. Before break, we focused on plants, and this week, we began our animal focus. We investigated two mystery substances early in the week (which we later discovered were sand and brine shrimp eggs). We then used rock salt that we had examined as well, and made salt water. We knew that one of the substances would be a living thing and that they needed the salt water as a suitable environment to live. We then transferred both substances to the salt water and later in the week, observed them to see if any changes had taken place. How excited were we to find that one of the substances had hatched several tiny brine shrimp! We used a proscope to take a really close look at them and were so thrilled to be able to watch them swim by. Many of the students mentioned that they looked like little tadpoles. Next, we used our magnifying lenses to examine both substances and record what we saw in our science journals. We ended the week with another close up examination of crickets. This time we focused on the crickets’ body parts and how the way their bodies are made help them to survive. We again used the proscope, our magnifying lenses, and special bug boxes that have magnifiers built in to the lids so we could get a good look at our crickets! We recorded our observations in our science journals, and I must say, our group of first grade scientists are becoming very skilled observers, analyzers, and wonderers! Next week, we will do more observations of animals as we take a look at fish. We will also switch gears for a bit to include a few Social Studies lessons on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. before our holiday next Monday.
Enjoy the unseasonably warm weather this weekend!
Mrs. Glaser ☺
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