by Brett FERGUSON | Dec 8, 2016 | Grade 1, The Grades
This week we started our life cycles by looking at the different stages of life for ants, chickens, frogs and seas turtles. We worked on our presentation skills focusing on our voice and pace and giving feedback to one another. We read nonfiction texts and used Venn...
by Brett FERGUSON | Dec 1, 2016 | Grade 1, The Grades
This week we finished our unit on How the World Works. We played math games with the class vs. the teacher, worked on writing on our instruction books, and practiced our reading staming getting up to 11 minutes as a class’s without stopping.
by Brett FERGUSON | Nov 22, 2016 | Grade 1, The Grades
Although this was a short week it was still lots of fun. On national day we learned about Omani culture and got to enjoy Omani food. We also played a few math games, finished our “how to make a banana split”, erupted our volcanoes, swam, danced, played,...
by Brett FERGUSON | Nov 10, 2016 | Grade 1, The Grades
Thank you parents for coming and sharing with your student what they have done, and what they can do moving forward. I learned a lot from the experience, and I look forward to applying my new ideas to the classroom. This week we in math we worked a lot on partioning...
by Brett FERGUSON | Nov 3, 2016 | Grade 1, The Grades
We spent this week inquiring things we want to know and learning about the different ways we can learn new things. The students wanted to learn about pumice and why it floats, so we decided to test it. We also learned why rocks are different colors, and learned about...
