Snowy Saturday Post

 

Our animal unit has been SO fun!

Key concept:

How do animal parents take care of their offspring?

  

 

Key Concept:

Animal adaptations help them survive.

 

 

Finding camouflaged moths

Then we made our own and hid them

 

 

 Women's History Month

 

Artist Lois Mailou Jones

Art inspired by her

 

Artist Howardina Pindell 

And art work inspired by her!

Math 

Beginning concepts about fractions

Quilt Squares

Lenaring about ABC order

Explore time fun!

 

First Grade Updates

 

Geometry Unit-2D and 3D shapes

Celebrating Black History Month for February and Woman's History Month for March. 

 

 

Kicking off Reader's Workshop!  

Each session begins with a whole class mini lesson.  

Then we transition into either Lexia or Book Boxes and I call reading groups to work with me.

 

New Science Unit 

Week 1 -Living and Non Living

We sorted living and non living things!

Week 2: Learning about how adults and offspring are similar and different.

Headbands- they gave clues about animal traits so their partner could guess the animal they had. 

 Adult and offspring memory game

Using Mystery Science to help a wild life rescue match baby birds to their parents. 

Ms. Betsy joined us to read a couple of books and led a discussion about appropriate language to use at school.

 

This month's whole school morning meeting was led by third grade.

We had a surprise visit from Champ at the end!