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Peep and the Big Wide World

teacher102 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:30:48 +0000

I found a great new site for the children to learn about science. Peep and the Big Wide World has activities and games. The main character is a newly hatched chick named Peep who has adventures in the “big wide world”. The daily videos about Peep are amazing. If you know Joan Cusak – she is the voice behind Peep. Thanks to Sue and the Junior Crew in Australia for sharing this site. I put a link to this site on right sidebar under “Links”.

Our Visit from Educazoo

teacher102 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:23:13 +0000

Yesterday Educazoo came to our school. Isabelle brought many animals. It was so much fun to see and touch the animals. We saw a box turtle, a soft chinchilla, a corn snake, a blue-tongued skink (a lizard), a flying green tree frog, a dancing ferret, and a baby chameleon. Catherine loved all the animals. Victoria thought Isabelle was really nice. Branden liked the box turtle. Hunter liked when he got to pet the chinchilla. It was so soft. Anthony liked when the ferret did the belly dance. It was so funny. William liked touching the chinchilla, too. Thomas liked having the snake around his neck. Tyler liked the turtle.

We learned a lot about the animals, too. Did you know that a chameleon only has 4 colors? If blue is not one of its colors when he is on something blue he won’t turn blue. The flying green tree frog uses its green color as camouflage to help it stay safe. It is nocturnal. This means that he sleeps during the day and is active at night.

Enjoy watching our video.

Untitled from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.

More Animals

teacher102 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:50:59 +0000

We have been studying about animals and their babies in Grade One. We will continue learning about animals and we will do animal projects this term. To celebrate what we’ve learned so far we are very excited to have Educazoo come to visit us this week. The animator will bring live animals into our classroom for us to see and possibly even hold.

We will begin a new “Let’s Find Out About Science” book called, “Big Tracks, Little Tracks” this week.

How Baby Animals Stay Safe

teacher102 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:20:58 +0000

We have been reading our Read and Find Out Science book called “How Animal Babies Stay Safe”. Did you know that monkeys keep their babies safe by carrying them on their back. Alligators move their babies by carrying them in their mouth. Grade One is enjoying reading this and other information books about animals.
Click on the eyes and a larger version of the book will appear.

Reading about Animals

teacher102 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16:55 +0000

Grade One has been reading information books about animals. Today we talked about the difference between information books and stories. Information books teach us about things and give us information. Sometimes they have a table of contents. Stories have characters and take place somewhere. They have a beginning, middle and end. Good stories have a problem that needs to be solved. We looked at many books from the front cover and inside too and sorted them into the two groups.

In Art we drew lions. Take a look at our lion slideshow.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Some Pictures of Us with Our Chrysalis’

teacher102 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:54:03 +0000

It was a fun morning taking the pupas out of their cups and taping them to the sides of our fish tank. Some of us took pictures with Mrs. Lynch’s camera.

A Big Surprise

teacher102 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:38:04 +0000

We came to school today after a 3 day weekend. We were happy and surprised to see that the caterpillars had made their button of silk and were hanging upside down in their cups. We had to take the lid off the cup but when we did this it was hard to do because there was a web inside. We taped the lids to the side of the tank. Now we have 14 chrysalis’ hanging on the sides of our tank. We have to wait and wait and wait until the shells start to crack. Then beautiful Painted Lady butterflies will come out. We will be so happy.

See the Caterpillars

teacher102 — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:33:02 +0000