Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Last Days

Learning continues during the last days of school. We are researching animals, building a zoo and making maps of our zoo.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Our Town

Mapping, planning, designing, building, thinking in 3 dimensions. Loving this!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Audience

Our classmates give us feedback about our work. Aubrey shows a map of our classroom. Can you find where these students would be on the map?

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Pollution is No Joke

Teams used a variety of plans and tools to remove pollution from a natural resource (water). Everyone agreed that it was messy and difficult. Everyone also agreed that they had fun, but could not get rid of all of the pollution. 

Getting Rid of Pollution

We worked together in small groups to remove oil and other pollution from water.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Welcome chicks!

Here is our first chick. Aubrey invented a new word today: cugly (pronounced cyoogly). It means cute and ugly at the same time.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Oil Boom

Fire Captain Huff showed us materials used to clean pollution from water and land.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Chicken Eggs

We are incubating chicken eggs. Today we "candled" the eggs and found life inside. 

Friday, April 18, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

Fun Downtown


SOUND INventions
 
A maker opportunity for kids of all ages
Come out, make some noise and join in the fun!
at the
 
Charlottesville Tom Tom Festival
Genius Hour
 
on First Street adjacent to Lee Park
Saturday, April 12
Noon – 3 p.m.
Drop in at any time and play awhile
no admission fee

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Mornings in Room 13

It's 8 o'clock and time to start Morning Meeting.  
It sure is tough to interrupt when everyone is so content!

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Open House at UVA School of Engineering

There is some pretty amazing work going on at UVA's School of Engineering and they want to show it off.

Families are welcome to attend an open house this Saturday.

Click here for details.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Invention Progress

Creating a robot that can tie shoes.

Everything Is Awesome

Students in The Butterfly Class worked together to change the lyrics of LEGO Movie's theme song.

Here's our version:


The Butterfly Class is awesome
Everything is cool when you're in The Butterfly Class
The Butterfly Class is awesome
Like you're in a dream

Everything is better when we work together
Side by side
You and I
Gonna learn forever
Let's learn forever

Friday, February 28, 2014

Inventors

We are learning about American inventors Benjamin Franklin and George Washington Carver.
The process of building/making/engineering (call it what you want) has begun in the Butterfly Class.

The design-build cycle.

Our problems.


Our raw materials.


Friday, February 21, 2014

Wintery Walk

We filled our lungs with the smell of wet cedar, crunched through the snow 
and marveled at the dense fog.




Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Valentine's Day Party


Interested in helping out?



Friends and family are invited to join us.
Feb. 14, 1:45-2:20, Room 13
We have 22 children in our class.  Here is a list of names:
Brook
Andrea
Sarina
Parker
Caitlynne
Kaleigh
Bryce
Miles
Brody
Phillip
Natalie
Sophia
Addisen
Layla
Nicholas
Dominick
Lauren
Charlie
 Jackson
Madeline
Taylor
 Kyndall 




Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Comfortable Kids

Each of these children is writing about the same topic, at the same time ("If I was in space..." or "If my class was in space...").  However, look at the wide variety of places they have chosen to be successful.







Friday, January 31, 2014

Night and Day

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Kids In Space!

We've been learning about space (mostly how the sun impacts earth).  We have spent some time watching videos taken on the International Space Station.  Astronaut Chris Hadfield provides a great inspiration.  Check out more of his videos on YouTube.


Thursday, January 9, 2014

math Night


Interested in learning what goes on in the Butterfly Classroom for math instruction?

Want to know how you can help your child at home in math?

All parents and caregivers are invited:

Math Night
January 23 (Jan . 30, make up date)
5:30-6:00 
Room 13, BWES

Child care is not available.  

Other First Grades will host a Math Night at the same time.  Other grades will host Math Nights on other dates.  

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Cold Weather Learning

We made mini-popsicles, using our outdoor stoop as a freezer.
Children made predictions and explored the meanings of the words "freeze, liquid and solid".
Parker:  The word "freeze" means that something doesn't move.
Sophia: A solid stays the same shape.


We also blew bubbles outside.  We wondered if the bubbles would freeze into a solid or stay a liquid.  
Now we are wondering, "Why did the small bubbles in the bowl freeze, but the bubbles we blew stay  as a liquid?"


Monday, January 6, 2014

Math Homework


This is the first week of math homework for the Butterfly Class. 

As with all other homework, math homework will be sent home on the fist day of the week and is due on Friday of each week.

One of our goals in math for first grade is for students to be able to quickly and accurately solve addition and subtraction equations to 18.