It is still the season of Fall -- and First Graders were supposed to go outside on Friday (December 6th) to observe and take pictures of a late fall day around campus --- but instead everyone was home with our first Snow Day in several years! WOW! You gotta love Texas! So, since I was stuck in the house all day, I decided to play around with "iMovie" and created a little something from our Gingerbread Project. Enjoy!
Students are learning to really explore the world around them and to group things into solids, liquids and gases. They are learning to describe the "properties" of things around them -- (color, size, shape, texture, etc.) -- and this is an excellent skill to practice at home!
We are also measuring items with non-standard units -- and we made a candy cane art project -- discussed how this is a "solid" type of matter and they used different nonstandard units to measure their candy canes. They took lots of pictures and are working on a slide show using the iPad app 30 Hands. Here are a couple pictures of ways we measure in First Grade:
Students know that if they do not have a ruler or tape measure around that they can always use "units" of some sort to measure -- as long as the units are the same type and size! (This is another great skill to practice at home!)
And here are a few RANDOM pictures from the week:
Loved the video! Good job kids, your cookies looked yummy!
ReplyDeleteVideo was very cute!!
ReplyDeleteYou worked on two ways to measure this week. You used nonstandard to measure length and scales to measure weight. Way to go Mrs. Simmons class.
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