Posted: March 4, 2016
Ms. Furlotte - Archived 04/20
Kindergarten and Grade One
Posted: March 4, 2016
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Posted: February 15, 2016
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Due Date:
Monday, February 15, 2016
Posted: February 3, 2016
For the last month or so grade one has been learning about temperature. Today we learned about how different animals stay warm in cold climates. We learned that whales, seals and dolphins stay warm because they have a thick fat on their bodies called blubber. We simulated blubber today using...
Posted: January 25, 2016
If your child has ever mentioned count around the circle, here is a video of one way we do it. Right now we're trying to break our record of counting to 100. Our current time to beat is one minute and sixteen seconds. We also use this activity to count backwards, and forwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, among other counting ways. We start every math class with a counting routine. Although it may seem repetitive, there are always different problem solving opportunities and it develops number fluency! Our students love this activity and love when they get bragging rights for breaking a new record!
Posted: January 25, 2016
Our unit on addition is well underway and students are doing really well learning all the ways to make ten. We're now working on understanding how addition means that we're joining numbers together to somthing new. Students are beginning to develop and discover their own strategies to make...
Posted: January 25, 2016
In science we've been learning about what happens when we measure of temperature of different things. Last week we did an experiment with the thermometers. We measured the temperature of cold water, warm water, snow, outside air and inside air. Students predicted that the red line would go up...
