How do we make sounds?

We have been learning all sounds this week in science.  We learned that a sound is made when something makes a vibration.  

The students LOVED this video about drums and how they make sound.  Enjoy!

Polygons!!!

We are finishing up the year in math by studying Geometry.  We have been learning about different shapes and their attributes.  We have also been learning about why some shapes are called "Polygons" and some are not.

Today at school we learned a little more about polygons with these two videos.

We then constructed our own polygons with straws and twist ties.

Check out your Seesaw account to see the polygons that your student made!

Farm Theme Study!

This week we began our theme study of farms.  Here are a few videos and songs we have used in class to support our theme!

Around the Farm Song

A Day on a Dairy Farm

F is for Farm

Count to 100 Song!

Practice counting to 100 and then to 120 with this fun song!

Fairy Tale Unit! The Frog Prince

We are staring our Fairy Tale Unit today!

Check out the characteristics of fairy tales we learned today.  

 Can you find them all in The Frog Prince?  We did!

We think the coolest one is that things happen in 3's and 7's!

Kerri Strug's Amazing Olympic Moment!

Today we read in our Journey's Books about Kerri Strug, an Olympic athlete.

Click HERE to see Kerri Strug's amazing Olympic Moment!

    

Here are some of the words our first graders used to describe her character:

perseverance

brave

believe

try, try again

never give up

try again

AMAZING!

Matter Chatter Song!

States of Matter Song!

We are enjoying learning about our new science unit...State of Matter!

Here is a song we have been singing in class!

School House Rock VERB Video!

School House Rock VERB Video!

We LOVE watching this one is class to support our unit on verbs.  :)

We Have Adult Butterflies!

We have Adult Painted Lady Butterflies!  When we arrived at school on Monday, more than have of our larvae had came our of their pupae!  Now they are all out of their chrysalises!  We made a sugar water flower for them to eat and put some plants and flowers in their butterfly cage so they could have a more natural habitat.  We will let them go outside soon!

Check out this cool video of a Painted Lady Butterfly going through it's whole life cycle!

3D Shapes Song!

 

 

When two vowels go walking....

Here is the fun video we watched in class to practice the reading rule "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking!".  :)