Science Fun With Pumpkins

Yesterday we began an experiment to answer the question: How can we keep a pumpkin from decaying? We made a hypothesis and began our experiment by painting glue on some pumpkin pieces from our jack-o-lantern and vaseline on the other pieces.

We will keep our eyes on this each day to see what happens!

A School-time Storybird

This week our stories in ELA focus on a day at school. We read a non-fiction piece this morning and used Storybird to create a fictional story about animals at school. We chose a group of artwork from the Storybird site and worked together to come up with sentences to fit each picture. Check it out! Animals Go To School! by mrscrowley1a on Storybird

Our gifts and talents!

Today we talked about how everyone has a special gift and talent from God. Here they are in a Wordle!

God's Gifts of Creation

We experimented with creating a Prezi to sequence and retell the Creation story during Religion. Click around the Prezi to read the story and view the pictures.

God's Gifts of Creation on Prezi

It's a new year in 1A!

We are off to a great start in 1A! This week we began exploring our classroom blog. Take a look at our first post: a Photostory created last week while we were reviewing numbers. Stay tuned for more exciting technology pieces to come. :)

That doesn't look like Mrs. Crowley!?

The girls have learned so much in math this year. They have really picked up the concepts of addition and subtraction. In reviewing all that we have learned this year, we thought it would be fun to film a skit in which we would teach the concepts and strategies we learned for addition. Check out our video! Coming soon, part 2 on subtraction!

Ready for Research!

Today we listened to the "tall tale" of Paul Bunyan. In the story we heard many funny explanations for things in nature. One of them had to do with Paul's ox, Babe, making lakes from his big footprints. This made us wonder.....How are lakes really formed? We chose to research this topic on the computer using Google.(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_lakes_formed) We learned that dents and cracks naturally happen in the Earth and then rain and melted snow fill them creating a lake. Next week we will begin our own research on an animal and create an informational paragraph.