January- February First Grade

In First Grade we spend some time observing animals that they receive in the classroom for their Science Curriculum. Below are their Scientific Illustrations of snails, goldfish and crickets.

I did a pretest this year to see where I could help them. 

After observing the animals they drew in more details like ridges or rings on the snails shell and eye spots, scales and mouths on the fish, and wings and six legs on the crickets.

In February we started our Japanese Owl Kites as we prepared for the wind lesson. It seemed to brighten everyone's mood with such a cold winter.