Sprouting Seeds of Knowledge

We're growing plants in grade one science.

Tuesday we planted the seeds and gave them their first drink.

Here we are journaling our experience:

Now we wait, watch and predict what is happening - how long with the plants take to grow?  Which will grow the fastest and the tallest?  We are so excited to see the results!

Fishy Math

I have been participating in some professional development activities this year involving math.  One of those is a math cohort group that meets about once a month since February in the evenings to improve our math teaching skills.  At our last meeting we were each given a piece of literature and asked to implement it in our classroom to meet the curriculum and expand upon the new skills we have gained.

Here is our book:

We decided to live our story (of course, real piranhas are out of the question, but we had fun imagining!)

We came up with some interesting math understandings:

Spring Gardens

Someday, this work will be famous....

Butterfly Art

Butterflies have made their way to our grade one garden.  Look at some of the beautiful specimens we caught...

Must be spring!

Born to Read!

In grade one, we love to read.  We've learned and grown so much, that now we are sitting in the storyteller chair.  Ask us to read you our favorite books...

Artistic Inventions

We've been working in groups to design geometric masterpieces.  Here are some worthy of the highest honors...

Cinco De Mayo

The fifth of May is known as "Cinco De Mayo" in Mexico.  So we decided to celebrate with a multicultural theme day.

Here we are dancing to "La Cucaracha!"

We also sampled salsa and tortilla chips...

Some Mexican show and tell...

This was a math number game featuring the Mexican flag.

Our Fiesta was Muy Bien!