Week 12 “Celebrating and learning”

Our class wondered many things about rocks, like where the lines and holes come from and how they have different colors. After observing and sorting rocks we described our rock collection. Furthermore we were busy measuring the rocks. The students wrote a story about...

Grade 1 is Finding Out About Rocks

  We enjoyed inquiring about rocks and formulating questions for us to research. We read the story about Peter and the Rocks. This gave us some information and ideas about what we could do with our rocks. We looked at different books. Then we chose a rock to...

Fun With Fractions in Grade 1

We have been learning about sharing by making the fractions: halves and quarters. The children loved eating a quarter of an orange. They worked out that we needed 4 oranges cut into quarters for all 16 children to get an equal piece. It was also fun to make a paper...

Week 11 “Being creative with rocks and stones.”

Grade 1 is observing rocks. We notice that they look and feel different, and we wonder why. This week, we used our creative thinking and created sculptures, pictures, and stories with rocks and stones. Students are using their creative thinking as we observe rocks....