Fantastic First Graders- Fabulous First Day!

The Rotation D day first graders are off to a wonderful start!  It was nice to see my returning students and to have a chance to get to know our new classmates.   To get to know each other a little better, the students took turns interviewing a classmate they didn't know (or didn't know as well.)  Each partner recorded a few facts about him/her and then introduced them to the rest of us.  

 

Next, we took a hike down to our science lab....

There were lots of things to discover along the way....

---Sunflowers and their seeds, grass tasseling, three leaf clover (maybe not lucky, but definitely special,) dragonflies, birds chirping and the highly prized, dead butterfly's wing, sadly not a matched set.

Once in our "lab" we had a discussion, about what kinds of objects can be connected to the field of science.

Amazingly enough, we learned that even sparkly, pink nail polish, Ziplock bags and gummy worms could be connected to a field of science.  I discovered we have some bright scientists in the making in our class.

After a recess, that is never long enough, the boys and girls were introduced to the Quirkles Science program.  Our first Quirkle we are learning about is Inquisitive Inman.  We read an interesting story with numerous vocabulary words like: intelligent, immediately, instruments, and investigate.  Then we conducted our first investigation of the year.  Watch the video below to join us on our explorations.  Be sure and have your child share their science experiment log with you too.






After lunch, we went to the computer lab to refresh/ introduce some of our computer skills.  The boys and girls learned to log in to our computers with their new user name and password.  They also practiced accessing our class blog.  There are many wonderful student and parent resources on the tabs along the top of our Primary Thinkers "home" page.  We hope you will check back each week for new updates and to allow your child to practice commenting on our blog posts and to access the variety of resources here.

Next, we started a "getting to know you" writing project.  You will hear more about it in the next two weeks.  The finished products will be on display at our October 2nd, Fall Open House.  

I think it was a pretty successful day!  I am looking forward to our year together!
Have a wonderful week!