Our Busy Social Calendar

First graders in Room 408 track the temperature and observe the skies every day after we come in from recess.  We record our information on our personal calendars and on our skies graph.  We also currently keep track of the daily weather above our number line (it's a color-coded dot based on the temperature around noon when we record our temperature observation).  We started the year out with lots of temperatures in the orange and yellow dots, and have slowly moved into the green dots.  We recently had our first blue dots.  The kids were excited to have a new color, but I have a feeling we're in for a lot of blue and purple temperature dots this winter.  They are very aware of the weather.  In fact, today kids were reminding each other to wear their coats outside because "it's only 43 degrees out and the 'feels like' temperature is only 36!"

We now have a timeline along our number line in our classroom.  We brainstormed the things we have learned together in September and October.  Kids then signed up to help create representations of our learning to add to our monthly murals along the timeline/number line.  We are very proud of our finished murals! (can you find Philippe Petit walking between the Twin Towers and Albert Einstein?)

 You can see that September happened on our number line from days 1-20 of school.

October took place from day 21-44 of school.  Can you find Jane Goodall and James being pulled by the seagulls attached to the giant peach?

We also had a presentation from our local K-9 unit, and they came in with their German Shepherd named Getty. 

The kids were great listeners.

Makenna, who has been working on a German Shepherds book in Writing Workshop, was in heaven.

Getty

This week we also had our Family Math Night.  Families explored math activities in our classroom and then headed over to Mrs. Zoll's classroom for help with technology.
Finally, Logan S. presented our We Love First Grade book at the LEADS School Board Meeting. He did a great job!

....and it's only Wednesday!

What was your favorite part about working on the September and October murals?