Puppets in Education

On Thursday, the first graders enjoyed seeing life-sized puppets perform skits that were designed to teach important topics facing children.  This educational program focused on cultural diversity and school safety.  After the show our class got to meet the puppets up close!  The children asked lots of good questions and it opened up a nice dialogue with the puppeteers.  Puppets in Education is dedicated to teaching children in Vermont how to keep themselves safe and healthy and to appreciate each other's physical and cultural differences!

Picturing Writing!

Picturing Writing is an art-and-literature-based apprach to writing that integrates visual modes of thinking in every stage of the writing process.  Children learn how to create pictures that tell a story and write words that paint pictures.  This realistic fiction story will center around their Vermont animal that they just completed a report about.  This is what they have done so far.....

Creating the setting with crayon resist technique!

This is the setting of my story!

Then we created a list of words to describe our setting!



Then we wrote the story!
We will publish our stories soon!



Our Non-fiction reports on Vermont animals are amazing!

Painting the habitat!




Now I add my animal I  made out of clay!
This porcupine looks so real with the spines!


























We hope you can stop by the school and see them!













We learned so much about our animals!  We know what they look like, where they live, what they eat and much more!

100 Days of Fun and Learning!

Look at our 100 Day crowns we made!

Technology teacher, Mr. Jarrad stopped by to read a book!

Tyler works on his graphing activity in math!

Sage is concentrating on counting her hearts!

Caleb is proud of his 100 stickers that he counted!

Science - Balls and Ramps

Using ramps to investigate the way a ball travels.

The children made their own balls out of clay!



The kids use ramps and balls in their science explorations!



Working together!

Proud of the ball I made!

Nature Adventure Day!

The children followed each other in a pizza circle to make a "game board" in the snow.  Two children were foxes and they chased the other children who were the geese.

The children had to stay inside the tracks they made!  It was fun to watch and the children enjoyed the game learning about predators and prey in the outdoors.  Three groups of children then went exploring in the snowy woods looking for animal tracks.  It was a magical day in the deep snow!

Taking a rest on a log!

The geese flapping their wings!

We are enjoying our Wonderful Winter in Vermont!