We hit the ground running after Spring Break, by starting a new math unit, a new reading unit, and two weeks' worth of exploring handwriting. We are feeling like we're back in the groove of school now, and ready for the fun of spring! Highlights from this week were participating in handwriting stations on Thursday (thank you to parent volunteers! Not possible without you!), and finishing off our health teeth unit by starting an experiment.
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Thank you to everyone who made playdough!
The kids loved it! |
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| Shaving Cream was the favorite station of many! |
We put eggs (not hard-boiled) into six different beverages: Sprite, Coke, Gatorade, V8 Juice, water, and Grape Juice. The students wrote down their predictions for which beverage they thought would be the least healthy for their teeth, and which would be the most healthy. Most students thought that water would be the most healthy/would cause the least damage to the egg shell (a representation of our tooth enamel), but there were varying opinions as to which beverage will be the most detrimental to the egg shells. We made observations the first day, when the eggs were first submerged in the different liquids, and then the day after as well. Next week, we will make final observations on what a week's worth of sugar and no teeth-brushing would do to our tooth enamel.
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| Our six different beverages. |
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| Scientific observations. |
Finally, these first graders are becoming complete place value experts! I encourage you, whenever you come across numbers with your student, to ask them which digit is in the ones, tens, or hundreds place value. Ask them how many tens a number has. How many ones. I am thrilled with how well they are doing! Have a great long weekend everyone!
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| Practicing letter formation with beads! |
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| Making our names with pipe cleaners. |
