Catching Up (EST)

It’s been a long while since I posted.
My bad.
Let’s try to catch up………..with a post or four about the things we have been doing in 1st grade.
How about our Shadows and project on following the movement of our EARTH!
That’s pretty cool stuff.
We are in a project carried over from last year called Exploring Space and [...]

Hermit Care……

Like all pets need care and cleaning.

So the hermits are getting playground sand .And kids help.
Until I go to the beach and get it there this weekend.

We have 15 hermit crabs, The Gladiator, Busta, the Kitty, Ernie, Bert and an asortment of others Tina, ike, and Herman. One of the best escaped and died, Little [...]

We *luv* our Hermits

Well look what you can find on-line. A pretty good picture of the inner workings of the hermit crab.
Decapod crustaceans…..
“Decapoda” from Ernst Haeckel’s Artforms of Nature, 1904

We started *crabbing* last year with 12 mail away hermit crabs that came with the Houghton Mifflin science pilot in a coupon and then the 3 we “bought” from [...]

Meet Busta and the Kitty

Tomorrow my class gets a big surprise.
New hermit crab environment and two new crabs, the Hello Kitty and the Busta who is a bit of a giant!

A Baobab Told Me……

It’s a busy week in 1st grade anymore and it sails by in a blink. There are so many aspects to this for 1st graders including acquiring the reading skills to bank our new tree vocabulary. ( tree, bark, branches, leaf, leaves, wood, forest, seasons, winter, spring, summer, fall…so on) This is actually my front [...]

The 1st Grade Sun Flower Painting Art Gallery (Dedicated To Vincent Van Gogh)

Today we finished our paintings, here they are!

Nice job. I thought they looked very lovely.

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Sunflowers, Van Gogh and Our Art Project, Spirals, Heliotropism, Observation….

This is one of many things we did today in our classroom. ( Our teacher got home after 7:30PM exhausted)
Today we learned about artists, Vincent Van Gogh, sun flowers, spirals, heliotropes and observing things closely. Then we looked at a sunflower, got little cups of paint and Q-Tips and went to work.
Tomorow we will do [...]

What Are We Going To Learn from 15 Hermit Crabs? A Dozen in a Box for our Science Investigations

Friday among the MANY things going on (including a great vaudeville show) we were introduced to our 12 new hermit crabs. Now we have 15! Since they like company, it was fun to watch them run around their cage.
If ONLY the teacher didn’t have a herniated disk. It’s really, really impossible.
Here’s a video to see [...]

Lawrence Likes Music Too!

Here is a video, okay slideshow, of our new turtle Lawrence, plus some Santa Barbara Zoo turtle pictures and Sharpee’s baby turtle ( same breed we were told)

A Visit To A Favorite Aquarium, Monterey Bay

In the summer I took a birthday trip to the Monterey Aquarium in Monterey, CA. It really is one of the wonders of the world. I just wish I had my new camera. Here are a whole lot of pictures. (One day soon I hope to move back. I think of that everyday actually.  This [...]