First Nature Walk

Learning at its best on our first, weekly Nature Walk.

We found, inchworms, cicadas, mushrooms, bark, poison ivy, milk weed, leaves, flowers, moss, lichen, wet grass, a huge spider and the tiny lizard in the video below.

We plan to go an a Nature Walk every Friday.  We will start sometime shortly after 11 and follow the same route every week.

Parents are welcome to join us!

Creating Class Rules

We worked together to create rules for our class:

Be Nice

Be Safe

Use Things the Right Way

Everybody Works and Plays

Squishy! Slimy! Science!

Today we started to learn what it means to be a scientist. 

We asked a question: "What's in the box?"

We made hypotheses: "a mouse, cheese, stink bugs, legos, a cookie"

Then we used our skills of observation to discover what actually was in the box.  Worms!

Then we recorded our observations with video, writing and drawing.

We engaged an audience outside of our classroom by tweeting our original question.

Young Readers

Finding a good spot to work is one of the first steps.

Welcome Butterflies!

Today we practiced reading this classic book.  We used the pictures to tell a story, then read the words.  Later, each child had a chance to act out the story.  They pretended to pop out of an egg, eat too much food and eventually turn in to a colorful butterfly.