Here's what the kids had to say about our week...
We shared our background knowledge about Antarctica and its animals, and we asked new questions (at school on Monday AND at home for a digital challenge).
We made a world map, focusing on the two polar habitats.
We learned about the emperor penguin, the largest type of penguin!
We went on a field trip to the IMAX theater downtown to see Born to Be Wild 3D. You can read a blog post all about it here.
We started a new chapter in math. We'll be learning different strategies to help us with addition. This week, we learned about counting on to add. It's easy to solve an addition problem by counting on, even if one of the numbers is really big! (We even figured out what year it will be 2 years from now using the counting on strategy.) Ask your first grader to teach you how!
We sit with new teams now and we learned new chants!
We learned about self-control with Cookie Monster, and now we can earn team points for showing self-control.
We started the Countdown to Thanksgiving! So far, we drew pictures of our favorite foods to show that we are grateful for food, and we exercised for 15 extra minutes on Thursday to show that we're thankful for our healthy bodies!
We read letters from our third grade pen pals in Gibbstown, New Jersey! Then, we wrote letters to send back to them!
We learned new signal words... Ask your first grader what social, pelagic, count on, ice floe, or fusiform means!
We made macaroni penguins for Fun Friday!
And of course, we read some fun new books!
How was your week? Did this post teach you anything new? Thanks for reading!
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