Can you see the wind? No, but you can see the wind move things -- water, trees, kites, etc. We can hear the wind. We can feel the wind too.
This morning, in our gathering place, we read
Feel the Wind. This book does a good job explaining the causes of wind, where is comes from, and how we can use wind to our benefit.
We discussed the affect that wind has on trees and the students took turns demonstrating how trees move and in what direction they move when wind is coming from the north and the south.
Next we read an abbreviated version of the
Princess an the Pea. We discussed why the Prince's mother, the Queen, was skeptical of the Princess' true lineage and how she found out that the visitor was indeed a princess.
Then it was the time for a project.
The students assembles a bed and placed 7 patterned and coloured mattress on the bed frame.
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| Megan, Anthony, and Dakota |
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| Izabella, J'Shawn, Nora, and Isaiah |
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| Nathan, Liliana, Tyler, and Taniya |
We completed 2 Daily 5 rotations. The First Graders took a Spelling pre-test and played a few games, students Read to Self, and met me at the conference table for various individualized activities.
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| Nathan |
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| Isaiah |
After recess, in anticipation of the Word Wall Word evaluation, on Friday, the students got to cheer the words -- clapping and yelling the spelling for each word.
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| Anthony |
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| Tyler |
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| Izabella |
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| Taniya |
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| All Together Now! |
We finished the day with And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Suess. Here is a puppet rendition of the story from Paramount (c.1944). Funny :-)
REMINDER! Homework is due tomorrow! How good did you do this week? There is still time to log your reading on
Reading Rewards, complete math drills on
XtraMath, and do some Language activities on
MobyMax!
