Animal Teachers

Another big idea in our animal inquiry is how some animal parents teach their young skills to survive. Watch these videos to see some animal teachers and animal babies who are learning, and then email, write, or text me the answer to the question at the end of the post!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTqV6LPl8c&list=PL6y7laYk481IYExh0bsq9OYC4hOyXytVb&index=12&t=0s

What kinds of things did you see babies learning?

Candy Inventions

We are reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I asked the kids what kind of candy they like and what kind of candy they would invent, if they could. Send me your candy inventions on video so we can share!

Look who found two Golden Tickets in her mailbox, today! Thank you Mr.  Caleb and Collin Wonka!

Make Your Own Clock!

Thanks to Caleb's mom, here is a great math craft activity! Click on the picture below or these words for the activity.

Styrofoam Cups Place Value Activity

Right before school ended in March I had shown the kids an activity using styrofoam cups to show the expanded notation of numbers.

Here is a video showing how to make your own! Our first grade goal is numbers in the 100s, so a cup for ones, tens, and hundreds should be perfect.  However, if you refer to the math guide I gave at conferences, your child may benefit from making one up to the thousands or ten-thousands!

Functional Parts Activity

During our animal inquiry we talked about how animals have special parts on their bodies that help them survive.

You choose an animal on pebblego or watch the video below:

Leave a comment below:
What is a functional part of an animal that you found?

Friday Dance Party

On Friday mornings I would play this song for a "dance party" right before our Morning Meeting.  The kids loved taking turns showing off their dance moves.
Surprise them and play it for them at home and have your own dance party!

Happy Friday!  We made it through our first official week of quarantine!

Functional Parts

We have been doing a Steve Jenkins author study while we are doing our animal inquiry.  Steve Jenkins is such a great author and illustrator (and often works with Robin Page on his books), and we have really enjoyed his books.

These are just a few of our favorites:

By studying his books, Steve Jenkins has taught us to to think in different ways about animals.

Steve Jenkins calls them "Creature Features" and Wild Kratts call them "Creature Powers."  Any way you describe it, animals have cool functional parts!

What parts do you see on these animals that help them survive?

We watched a special video about an owl and the special features it has for hunting.

We watched the owl video a second time and labeled the functional parts.

Here are functional parts that we noticed:

You might also enjoy this video: 

If you're interested to learn more about Steve Jenkins and his artwork, click on the video below!

Thank you, Steve Jenkins!