We measured how long the tails were on mice.
We weighed different sized bear, worms, frogs, and fruit to make our balance scales balance. Then we recorded what we did.
We used little vehicles to go from home to the store. This was a popular activity.
Worm Work had a lot of steps. We needed to read the problem, build the problem with inch worms, stamp, color, and measure to solve the problems.
We answered questions about which measurement tool we would use in different tasks.
We measure time with days, months, and seasons. The task was to put these cards in order into a graph and find out which was the longest or shortest words.
We needed to estimate and then check how many "worm" lengths these objects were.
This time we measured items in the book with small inch long paper clips .
The children wrote kind thoughts to Miss Vanderhoof on a big heart. It was the back of the book cover that I bought for her called the Map of My Heart. They also made 1/2 birthday cards for her. She let the kids do a creative book that is an adaptation of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We will miss her.
We measured how long the tails were on mice.
We used little vehicles to go from home to the store. This was a popular activity.
What was in the mystery egg? (Missing addends)
Miss Vanderhoof provided lots of art materials for the students to make their own "Wild Thing". They also made a little book to describe their favorite part of the book by Maurice Sendak. When they were finished with their two squares, she stapled them on the bulletin board to make a 1st grade quilt. It's awesome!
Each table of kids created a different part of a leprechaun and this is the final product. Pretty cute! The leprechaun ladders were useful for Shawn O'Casey to climb up to inspect their work and leave a treat. For our math games we worked on many skills: place value, missing addends, measurement, money, graphing, addition, and subtraction.
A. has moved back into the area from Taiwan. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. I taught his sister two years ago. We are very excited to have him join our circle of friends.
The children are learning to say many phrases, as well as finger spell their names so they can video some questions to Miss Vanderhoof's friends in the Ogden School for the Deaf.
