Student Blogger: Isandro

My Trip To Alaska
By: Isandro

We went on an airplane to Alaska. It took five hours to get there and my cousin came with us.

We saw the Northern Lights on the airplane. They were white instead of green and blue.

Alaska is cold. We saw it snow for a little bit.

We went ice skating at my friend's house. We went sledding and we crashed into the snow.

We stayed at my grandma and grandpa's house. I want to go to Alaska again, but next time I want to go in the summer!

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Student Blogger: Lea

My Elf is so funny. Once he was hiding in the bathtub. Today he was hiding inside my Christmas tree! One time, he also was sitting on the wreath that was hanging on my door. He is 374 years old! His name is Kristoff. I love my Elf!

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Student Blogger: Cooper

My Elf

It hides in weird places. My elf's name is Frisbee. He's funny because he hides in the freezer and on the ceiling fan. It's amazing. I love Frisbee. He flies and hides. Usually when he leaves he leaves notes for me. 

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It's feeling like winter!

For the second week in a row, I decided to give the class a larger role in writing our blog post! Check out the padlet below to read what they had to share about our week:

First graders, if you didn't finish typing your padlet comment, you and your partner can finish it at school next week! :)

First Graders Take Control!

The first graders wrote this week's post all on their own! Check out the padlet below!

Mickey Mouse by Alex

Hi. My name name is Alex and my blog is about Mickey Mouse.

Walt Disney said "it all started with a mouse." But Walt Disney was going to name him Mortimer Mouse. What made everybody like him was lots of little kids liked him. He is also my favorite
character. And I have more than that to tell you. I met him three times when I went to
Disney World and I met more Mickey Mouse characters. I met Goofy, Minnie, Donald, and
Pluto.



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Two Types of Whales

This week we learned about two types of whales! But before that, we did a science experiment!

Many animals that live in cold places like Antarctica and the Southern Ocean have blubber to keep warm. A few first graders tell about our blubber experiment below:

The kids asked me SO many great questions this week when I first introduced the blue whale and orca whale, and they continued to ask questions as we learned more and more. This led to... MORE learning! We are now whale experts! 

Every evening this week, I found myself searching online for more whale facts. The kids had so many questions... I knew I'd need to be prepared! :)

Here are just a few of their questions:

"How long is a baby blue whale?"
"What are the lines on the blue whale's throat for?"
"Since blue whales are way bigger, I wonder if they eat orca whales..."
"Is all plankton microscopic? I think I've seen plankton before." (We had to change our signal word definition thanks to Cooper! Jellyfish and krill are plankton, even though you can see them. They float with the ocean currents!)
"Why do whales need blowholes?"

I loved watching the first graders ask questions all week long, but what I loved just as much was hearing them speculate, trying to answer their classmates' questions! These kids are such critical thinkers! I can't wait to talk about finding answers to our questions, and about all of the places in the world that they can find those answers.

We didn't just talk about whales this week... We learned three new addition strategies, too! Ask your first grader about near doubles! Can you use the doubles fact 5+5=10 to help you solve the near doubles fact 5+6? Or ask how we make 10 to solve an addition problem, like 8+4. We also learned how to act out a math problem to solve.

As usual, we also read a few new books...

And Juan Carlos's mom was our mystery reader!

We also made turkeys with our third grade buddies! So fun!

Thanks for reading our post! Happy Thanksgiving!