Antarctic Antics!

Brrrr! We are studying Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth!

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!

Born to Be Wild 3D: Our Field Trip

Check out what some of our first graders had to say about yesterday's field trip to the IMAX theater downtown!

There was a big screen at the IMAX theater. -Cooper

My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach a tree and the tree fell. -Damion

I liked wearing the 3D glasses. -Aaqil

I liked the beginning when the screen turned on and there was a big circle and lasers. -Indigo

My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking from two milk bottles at the same time. -Parker

My favorite part was when the orangutan spilled the milk all over. -Alex

My favorite part was when the elephant poked his nose through the fence to drink water at the beginning. -Lorenzo

I liked when they let the orangutans back into the wild. -Anahi

I remember the part when the elephant was scared and bumped into the fence. -Kendall

I liked the part when the elephants were kicking the ball and it looked like it was going to hit our faces. -Allyson

I liked when we ate apples and grapes before the movie started. -Juan Carlos

I liked the part when the orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. -Nya

My favorite part was when the lady made friends with all of the orangutans. -Jaykob

The movie was all about elephants and orangutans. -Tanaya

I liked the part when the woman was feeding the baby orangutan a bottle. -Jared

I liked the part when the baby orangutan was holding onto its mother when she was trying to swing to another branch. -Carol

My favorite part was when the baby orangutan was about to fall out of the tree. -Tianna

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Our Trip to the IMAX Theater

Today we went to see Born to Be Wild in IMAX 3D, a documentary about people who rescue and raise orphaned elephants and orangutans and prepare them to return to the wild. The kids LOVED it. Here's what we had to say about our field trip!

• My favorite part was when the baby orangutans were climbing in the trees and when the soccer ball looked like it was coming towards our faces. -Hailey
• My favorite part was when the title of the movie was coming right at us. -Milana
• I liked when the little monkey kissed its mommy. -Ariana
• My favorite part was when the people and the elephants were playing soccer. -Cedric, Thomas, Wesley, Noah T.
• I liked the part when the monkey was swinging on the trees coming toward us. -Ainsley
• My favorite part was when the purple ball was coming right at your face. -Parker
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach the other tree and the tree fell down. -Jacquelyn
• I want to help koalas and pandas like the people in the movie helped elephants and orangutans. -Jacob
• My favorite part was when the elephant kicked the ball and with our 3D glasses it looked like it was going to hit me in the face. -Milo
• I liked when the orangutan was stealing the lady's food. -Leila
• I liked when the baby orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. They have to use to jungle gym to learn how to climb trees and swing on vines so they can survive in the wild. -Sarah
• I liked when the orangutan was eating the soap. -AJ
• I liked seeing the orangutans' real habitat. -Eliana
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking one bottle of milk and accidentally poured the other bottle on himself. -Amaru
• I remember learning at school that elephants take dust baths to protect them from the sun and that was in the movie. It's like their kind of sunscreen. -Jalen
• I liked the part when the elephant got carried by the people into an airplane and got rescued. -Emma
• I saw the elephants use their trunks to drink water and reach branches to eat. -Katherine
• I liked the part when the elephant was drinking milk and holding the bottle with his trunk. -Noah K.
• It scared me when the ball was coming toward us when the elephants kicked it. -Michael
• I liked when they rescued the elephant and took it to the orphanage safely. I loved when they got to return to the wild. It was sad, but it was happy, too. -Olivia
• I liked the part when the humans fed the baby orangutan with a bottle of milk. I liked that the baby orangutans wore diapers. -Isaiah
• I remember that elephants live in savannas, and it showed elephants in savannas in the movie. -Analisa
• The baby elephant was scared when the people first rescued him so he ran into them, and the elephant didn't know that the people were trying to help him. -Thomas
• I want to take care of a giraffe one day like the people in the movie took care of the elephants and orangutans. -Courtney
• I liked how the elephants show that they love each other with their trunks. -Rohin
• It's amazing that these humans raised the elephant and orangutans orphans, yet they were still able to prepare them to survive in the wild. And it was so cool to see animals we learned about up close in 3D! -Miss Kloczko

Did you join us on our trip? Do you think you'd like to see this movie? Leave a comment below!

Mrs. Kahler's first graders also wrote a blog post about Born to Be Wild!

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