Weather and MLK

I feel like I take pictures of the same stuff every year, but it's just so gosh-darn cute! Haha!

In January we study weather and seasons (a little more than you typical calendar time talk). We always start with the book "Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs" and talk about the weather man's job forecasting. Then we make our own weather forecast!

I love how some Martin's look a little Hispanic with the handlebar going on!

Eggs and Martin Luther King Jr.

While we studied Martin Luther King Jr. this week I had the kids make the connection to the egg observation other classes have done.

I always start MLK Jr. with the "Brain File". We talk about how our brains make little folders for things to store our learning or "schema" in. 

We then read a book about MLK Jr. And added out new learning. 

Following the brain file we went to our objectives poster and talked about what we were going to do that afternoon.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then gave every table a brown and white egg and a Venn Diagram for them to record.  They helped me fill out my Brown and White Egg Venn as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally we wrote about how Martin Luther King made an impact on our world and then set to making Martin out of paper.  This idea stemmed from Reagan Tunstall's MLK writing craft which you can check out at Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

Busy little bees!

We have been moving fast this semester! We will start with MLK Jr.  My kids loved making these simple MLK Jr. crafts!  It was super easy and quick since I already had the face cut outs and eye cut outs as well! 

I love the handle bar moustache! HAHA!

 

Then we covered Landforms and Bodies of Water

 

We were kinda fast and furious with this topic so we just made our own maps and labeled the landforms.

 

Last Tuesday was our 100th day of school and we had a great time!  I made a bunch of 100's chart puzzles for the kiddos to do and hid 100 Hersey's Kisses in the classroom that we hunted down.  We couldn't find #43 for the longest time.  Finally as I was wrapping things up with the whole group at the carpet one of the boys jumped up and RAN over to the paper towel holder and found the sneaking thing on the handle of the paper towel dispenser.  It was pretty amusing to watch his face light up :)

 

My favorite Pinterest find from last year is the 100 digit creation!  This year now that I am back in First Grade I had to step up the rigor just a bit!  We wrote a story about our 100th day creation.   

I bet you wouldn't have guessed this one was written by a girl, lol!