1st – October 22nd

1st – October 22nd

by | Oct 15, 2024 | Expired Plans, 1st

Animal Live Cam Padlet

Follow this link to show the Animal Live Cam Padlet, or use the embedded one below.

Made with Padlet
  1. View several live cams using the link in SeeSaw.
  2. Pick one animal and draw a picture using pencil and colored pencil. Do the background.
  3. One page 2 in Seesaw, take a photo of your animal drawing.
  4. On page 3 use the microphone to record what you noticed and wondered about the animal.

When you are done with all other SeeSaw assignments, remember to click the green check to turn them in. THEN you can go to the Code.Org link and complete coding puzzles. Here is a link to the SeeSaw Code.org assignment. In SeeSaw, use the microphone tool to tell me about what you did during that time.

Millipedes

Millipedes

by | Jan 15, 2024 | 1st, Life

Millipedes

Last week we did millipedes but ran out of time to finish the millipedes pages in BookCreator. Today we will look at centipedes and then finish the millipede pages and start the centipede pages.

 

Centipedes

BookCreator Rules

  1. Do NOT change the background or text on pages I send to you. Only add what the page tells you.
  2. Do NOT create any new books!! You should only have one book at a time in the library. I will delete extras!
  3. If you finish the pages, go to your cover and add a photo of you. Check that your name is on it. Some kids do not have their name.
How to Catch a Classroom Pet

How to Catch a Classroom Pet

by | Sep 26, 2023 | UTK, K, 1st, Engineering

Lesson Launcher

Watch this video read aloud on How to Catch a Class Pet.
WARNING! The reader is really silly.

What would happen if all of the class pets escaped? What would we do?

How would you catch each of the different pets?

🦎Bearded dragon, 🐒turtle, πŸ•·spider,
πŸ¦€hermit crab, πŸ‡rabbit, 🐍snake, 🐸frog, 🐟fish, 🐁rat, 🐹guinea pig?

Mrs. Allard's Pet Escape Story

Listen to Mrs. Allard’s story about her missing snake
….many years ago when she taught 4th grade.

Thinking about the Story

Explain This Page

Can you explain what the students are doing on this page from the book?

 

What is this student doing?

What different pets were featured in the story?

What different plans did they try to catch the pets?

Which pet is he trying to catch and why is this funny?

Our Class Pet Activity for today!

  1. Β Which pet are you going to try to catch?
  2. How can you safely catch this pet and bring it back to the classroom?
  3. Draw your plan.
  4. Label parts of your plan to help explain.
  5. Build a model of a pet trap with Legos.
  6. Clean up – please don’t mix in the plastic animals with the Legos!

Note from Mrs. Allard: if you spend the entire time on making the plan and NOT doing the Lego build, that is fine!

 

Remember, we want to capture the pet safely!

A kindergartner's plan for catching a pet elephant. Click to see the image larger. This student spent the whole time on her plan and did not do Legos.

A kindergartener's model of how to recapture an escaped pet frog. Click to see the image larger.

1st Grade Intro

1st Grade Intro

by | Sep 17, 2023 | 1st

Hello first graders! This will be the first year that you get to bring computers to my classroom. We are not ready quite yet to start that, but we will be bringing them in to use for lots of different things. It will take a while to get used to logging in and how to navigate computers. but you will get the hang of it.Β 

This will help us for many years to come. Computers are not just something to play games on – they are tools for learning and discovery!