Catching up...

I've been behind the past few weeks! I've been traveling and trying to keep my creativity alive in the classroom, so blogging has taken a back seat unfortunately but here's what we've been doing in first grade:

SCIENCE
Our plants have all been left on the patio so they are a thing of the past now. (Something I need to toss!) For the animals unit I played a class-wide version of Guess Who. I placed pictures of 8-10 animals on the chalkboard and wrote the name one on a notepad for myself. The students asked questions to guess which animal I wrote, such as "Can it fly?" "Does it live in water?" etc. They had a really great time but sometimes would just start immediately guessing. That's to be expected with young ones right?

We also completed an activity with snails where each student received a snail and several types of food to find out what the snail would eat. Those poor snails, haha! Naturally the students were excited and talkative the whole class so we made it through most of the activity and they now know the types of things snails will eat. This activity was Teacher Eduardo's creation so I squealed with the children at the site of dozens of slithering snails. I made it through though!

We also went on a field trip to a farm where the students saw live sheep, pigs, cows, chickens and donkeys. What a day! The location that we visited was highly organized and the students were whisked off into small groups as they toured the grounds and participated in several activities. For me, unfortunately, everything was in Spanish and with so many of them separated I found it difficult to jump in with any English. I think they learned a lot about the material that day...just nothing in English. :(

Now we are starting time so I'm creating some activities about daily routines for the next couple weeks.

ART
After we completed our yogurt ducks we created a beautiful tree full of birds, birdhouses, leaves and flowers...all of the student's artwork of course. One day of art was the day we traveled on our field trip so that sums up everything that has been happening in art pretty quickly. Hopefully I can add some new activities for us soon and help Teacher Carmen with ideas!