Hermit Crabs!

Earlier this month we were the host classroom for a cage of hermit crabs!

We had so much fun learning all about them!

We became scientists and learned all about their diet, habitat and special qualities.

Did you know hermit crabs have 10 legs?!

We thought they were pretty funny, one of them especially silly and would climb the side of the cage!

On a Friday we did a little spring cleaning.

We thought that might make spring actually happen...... we were wrong.

We wrote about how to take care of hermit crabs. They're a lot of work!

On the last day we got to touch and hold them!

WHOA!

We had to be very gentle!

We had an Easter egg hunt in our classroom!

We were given a money amount and had to find the egg with that same amount.

Before we could eat our jelly beans we had to figure out 4 different ways to make the number of jelly beans we had!

Easter journaling.

First Grade Rewind....

St. Patrick's Day Fun

Every year those darn leprechauns cause trouble in the classroom.

Turned our picture upside down....

....even left us a note!

What a mess!

Everyone had to help clean up!

We got to drink leprechaun juice for snack!

And we wrote an acrostic poem.

We made some super cute leprechauns, and had to write when we feel lucky.

WSU Nursing

Two WSU nursing students spent some time in our classroom teaching us about germs.

We had to rub some special lotion onto our hands. 

Then we had to wash our hands the best we could.

We checked our hands with a special light after to see if we got rid of all of our fake germs.

A lot of us had to wash again!

Thank you future nurses!

Learning Centers

We studied 2D and 3D shapes in March.

One of our math centers was to add up shapes by counting how many sides they have.

We played another game where we had to roll two dice together, add them up and color in a shape with a matching number of sides.

Sorting 3D shapes!

We also practiced non-standard measurement.

We had to measure things in our classroom using unifix cubes.

We had to measure our feet.......

....and a friends foot!

Our desk too.

One of our math goals in April is to correctly count and identify coins.

Counting coins game!

Have a great week!