It was a whirlwind week with new learning, review of past learning, and our anticipation of the arrival of autumn!
We looked back at short vowel sounds a bit this week, and enjoyed a couple of episodes of "Between the Lions" to help us with that work. Next week we'll move on to vowel teams and "kite" and "jelly bean" words. We started to delve into the steps of story writing, and wrote five more Leader Books (one more week and we will all have had a turn to be the leader!) In Math, we reviewed ten frames and played a fun tens-and-ones game with a giant die:
On Thursday, we had our first outdoor safety drill and a fun STEAM (adding Art to our usual STEM) activity. We learned the parts of a butterfly's life cycle and their body as well-head, thorax, and abdomen. Then, we created our own butterflies to bring home! Zoe's family was kind enough to donate a monarch caterpillar to our class, and it formed its chrysalis last weekend-hopefully we can catch it emerging early next week!
And, some photos of our STEM day last week:
Here are some pictures from our first day of first grade!
And, because this blog doesn't already have enough pictures, I thought I would add some photos from Washington, DC that I took last weekend. I was in work sessions at the National Education Association pretty much the whole time, but did get about two hours to go to the Smithsonian and then I walked to the Lincoln Memorial and other monuments one night. I thought the kids might like to see some of the things I saw, especially if they've never been to DC, and we were so busy this week that I didn't get to show them (they might recognize a few from "Night at the Museum"):
Museum of Natural History The Hope Diamond
Made from Legos-Mus. of American History
Capitol and Washington
Monument (above);
Vietnam Memorial
Lincoln Memorial
Rotunda at the Museum. of Natural History
PS-On Friday, October 6th, the Children's Museum of Maine will be hosting a Joyful Children's Day from 10AM-8PM. I am volunteering there as a read-aloud-er sometime late in the afternoon/early in the evening-maybe I'll see you there!
I hope you all have an awesome weekend!!
Becca
