Beach Day

The BIG day finally arrived! Today we suited up (in our tie dye) and headed out to Odiorne Point in Rye, NH.  1st graders had a blast exploring the rocky shore and seeing first hand everything we've been learning.  Thank you to all the chaperones who were able to join us today on our excursion.  Our little scientists did an excellent job sharing all their sea creature knowledge.  I'm happy to report we all looked adorable in our tie dye and made it back to school with smiles on our faces (just a little sweaty).  Enjoy our Seashore Smilebox:

May Flowers

When we peek outside our classroom window we see beautiful May flowers budding all around us.  Well, flowers have also been budding in our classroom too.  Students made "math flowers" to show their knowledge of representing different numbers.  1st graders showed their target number with equations (addition and subtraction), in a ten frame, with tens and ones and some even wrote the number word. 

These flowers came out so adorable we decided to send a set to our penpals.  While creating our penpal flowers we focused on the difference between interrogative sentences (questions) and explanatory sentences. 1st graders asked their penpal a series of questions on the front side, making sure to include the question mark and then answered these questions with explanatory sentences on the back.  We even included our mustache pictures to give our penpals a smile.