What Terrific First Graders & What a Terrific Day!

The Rotation E day first graders are a tiny but mighty bunch.  This is our smallest class of the week, but they are full of energy, fun and wit!  (In case your worried or maybe hopeful, depending on your perspective, our class will grow to a full quantity by winter.)  It was nice to see my returning students and to have a chance to get to know our new classmates.   To learn more about one another, the students played a game.  They took turns asking a question of the group such as "Who else likes art?" or "Who else has a baby in their home?"  Each person won a point each time they raised their hand.  In the end, they each won four new friends and learned more about one another.

With that, we were off to our outdoor laboratory to discover how objects can be connected to a field of science.

 

They are a sharp class.  They quickly caught on knowing ways to connect hermit crab food, a sea shell, light bulb and pine cone to a field of science.  In the end, I stumped them on the nail polish and silk scarf.  Ask your child how they are connected?  There is a definite love of science in these boys and girls!  We have a lot of fun E Days ahead of us.

After a short recess, the students were introduced to the Quirkles Science Program.  Today, they learned about Inquisitive Inman.  We read an interesting story with numerous vocabulary words like: intelligent, immediately, instruments, and investigate.  Then we conducted our first investigation of the year.  Watch the video below to join us on our explorations.  Be sure and have your child share their science experiment log with you too.

After lunch, we used the Smart Board to refresh/ introduce some of our computer skills.  The boys and girls learned to log in to our computers with their new user name and password.  They also practiced accessing our class blog.  There are many wonderful student and parent resources on the tabs along the top of our Primary Thinkers "home" page.  We hope you will check back each week for new updates and to allow your child to practice commenting on our blog posts and to access the variety of resources here.

At the end of the day, the boys and girls learned about our newest classroom "feature."  Today, was the first day for our podcasting booth.  The students will use it for making audio podcasts and videos.

The boys and girls helped me make our very first podcast to thank Mr. Porras, my neighbor, for building our booth.  Each class will contribute a part of the project we will give him to show our appreciation.


 This is the beginning of our Thank You project:

Did they enjoy their first podcast.....

I think so...  Have a great week!