This week in grade 1:
We had a busy week in grade one this week. In unit of Inquiry we played environmental detectives and looked around the school for ways that we can improve our ecological footprint. We discovered that we waste a lot of water in the bathrooms using the taps that keep running for a set amount of time and that we create a lot of waste in the staff room making coffee as well as the fact that we don't recycle. The class has decided to take action by putting these items forward in the student council meeting this week and making our own recycling bins for each floor. We focused a lot of pollution in the ocean and why it is important to protect it because we get many resources from it, like fresh water and food (we also looked at how pollution moves through the food chain).
The kids are making recycling sign for the bins we are making for the school.
This is our great pacific garbage patch. It is slowly getting bigger as we pollute our "ocean" classroom. The ocean creatures (the students) are being displaced from their homes.
The kids are initially excited by the trash which magically shows up in the class, similar to the way ocean creatures like the trash at first because it is shiny and they think they can eat it. But then they get sick.
This is when they start to get less excited about it.
We experienced reading buddies being the younger buddy and the older buddy this week. The kids did a great job reading with the grade 6 students as well as reading to Pre K-A.
Measuring how big a killer whale is. It wouldn't fit in our classroom so we had to measure down the hall. If you look closely you can see Aika at the end of the hall with her hand up.
Parents day! Thanks to everyone who came this morning!
Reading buddies with Pre-K A!
Spelling Words this Week:
rain
paid
nail
made
came
take
tape
day
say
play
Review words
spot
stop
drop
Star Words
chain, snake
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