We returned to the Computer Lab to continue our programming exploration. Ask your child how many lines of code he/she wrote today!
Visit code.org to see the latest Hour of Code updates, tutorials, and videos.
Collections and Explorations
Empty Ziplock Bag
For our weekly enrichment class, Ms. Ozawa is asking everyone to fill the small ziplock bag that came home with 20 different "somethings" by Friday, December 13th. It can be anything (except food or anything live) from home or yard. Possible items are a marble, rock, domino, etc. Items will be returned home on the 13th.
Hour of Code
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| Click here to go to Hour of Code |
In preparation for next week's Hour of Code, we began exploring the coding tutorials. Ask your child about his/her programming experience. How many times was he/she able to successfully have Angry Bird catch Silly Pig?
Nurture Lesson
Our first Nurture lesson focused on the importance of having a balanced plate for each meal and making sure that we eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Nurture is a program being implemented in schools across our district to educate students about making healthy food choices and getting physically active.
Subtract-A-Graph with Partners
Our subtraction activity provided practice with subtraction facts, numeral writing, graphing, and a lively discussion on probability.
How is a musical performance like a game of dominoes? How are they different?
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| A Far Cry |
In collaboration with Ravinia Festival, the self conducted orchestra, A Far Cry, performed at Braeside on Friday! Ask your child about this inspiring concert.
Tricky Tens
We learned how to play Tricky Tens with dominoes. Look for directions and card stock dominoes on Monday so you can practice at home too!
How is a zipper like a button? How are they different? How about a mouse and a cat or a seashell and a tree? How are these pairs alike and how are they different?
Using our analytical thinking, we helped Sybil the Scientist answer these questions and more when Ms. Ozawa visited our classroom. Ask your child to share with you some of his/her ideas about how even the most unlikely pairs can have similarities and differences. We just have to think about it!
Classifying with Sybil and Making Ten with Partners
Ms. Ozawa joined us today to help us practice a new way of thinking. We met Sybil the Scientist who makes careful observations of what is around her, collects data, and then records the data. We too made observations as we began to help Sybil classify a group of newly discovered creatures found in Crystal Pond Woods. Ask your child how he/she thought scientifically to organize these creatures into four different cages so that each cage would house creatures that were alike in some way.
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| How might you classify these creatures into 4 cages? |
Make Ten!
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| Ask your child to teach you how to play Make Ten! |
Find a partner and a deck of cards. Pull out all face cards and jokers. Each player is dealt five cards. Players look for pairs of cards that equal 10.
Players take turns asking each other for a card that will make 10 with a card in their own hands. If a player gets the card, he or she puts the pair down and picks a new card from the deck. If a player does not get the card, the player must “Make Ten” and pick a new card from the deck. If the new card from the deck makes 10 with a card in the player’s hand, he or she puts the pair of cards down and takes another card. If a player runs out of cards, the player picks two new cards. A player’s turn is over when no more pairs can be made that make ten. When there are no more cards, the game is over. Enjoy!
Stories All Around Us
Donna Washington, the multi-talented author, performance artist, and storyteller visited Braeside today! We were spellbound as Donna Washington shared her storytelling magic. Ask your child to retell stories, Epaminondas and Sody-Sallyratus!
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| Click on the link above to visit Donna Washington's website to enjoy more storytelling fun! |
Elephant and Worm Theatre Company collaborated with Braeside students to create and perform several original plays!
University of Chicago Research Study
For those of you that elected to participate in the University of Chicago research study, today was Session #1 with your child. Within the next few weeks, Session #2 will occur and then the Bedtime Learning Together application and iPad Mini will be distributed to your family. We will keep you posted!
Author Sally Walker
Preparing for our author visit.
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| Ms. Parker introduces us to Sally Walker and her books. |
And today, Sally Walker visits Braeside!
Reading with Raz-Kids, The Honeybee , and Counting On with Cards
Raz-Kids
Your child was introduced to Raz-Kids this week. Raz-Kids is an interactive website that allows your child access to a wide range of e-books. Each student, within their own account, can read books, listen to books, record themselves reading, take comprehension quizzes, and earn stars toward building Raz Rockets. To access Raz-Kids, click on the icon above, access through our classroom blog,
http://mrsrossman.blogspot.com, or log in at www.raz-kids.com/login/cnrossman. Enter cnrossman for the teacher name, select student icon, and enter your child's password that was sent home. Happy reading!
Your child was introduced to Raz-Kids this week. Raz-Kids is an interactive website that allows your child access to a wide range of e-books. Each student, within their own account, can read books, listen to books, record themselves reading, take comprehension quizzes, and earn stars toward building Raz Rockets. To access Raz-Kids, click on the icon above, access through our classroom blog,
http://mrsrossman.blogspot.com, or log in at www.raz-kids.com/login/cnrossman. Enter cnrossman for the teacher name, select student icon, and enter your child's password that was sent home. Happy reading!
The Honeybee
Counting on Stategy with Cards
As we explore addition concepts, cards are a great resource to practice the counting on strategy.
Walk To School Day!
What a beautiful day for walking to school!
And for all school Zumba!
The Klise Sisters Visit Braeside
Thinking in New and Different Ways
Ms. Ozawa encouraged us to think in new and different ways as we helped Isabel the Inventor think of a way to get Sybil the Scientist across Crystal Woods Pond without getting wet. Ask your child how he/she looked at these items in new and different ways to invent something that could get Sybil safely across the pond.
Honeybees at Heller Nature Center
Learning with Ms. Leah
What does a honeybee see with those compound eyes?
Ready for the apiary!
Ms. Katie pulls out a honey frame for us to see!
Math Practice -- Computers and Dice
Today in the computer lab we reviewed how to access the math IXL website. In your child's home folder was his/her username and password for IXL practice. Your child knows how to go to IXL via our Braeside website: Staff Directory, Cindy Rossman to our blog, First Grade Links, Math Links, and then IXL Math. You also can go straight to our blog at http://mrsrossman.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
Decade Dice and 10 Sided Dice
We also explored rolling our decade and ten sided dice to place numbers in our nearly empty 120s chart! Ask your child what number(s) on the 120s chart could never be rolled. Why? What was the one number we could roll that didn't have a place on the 120s chart?
Exploring honeybees and data
Look what the Feldman family found in their tree!
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| Honeycomb Cells |
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| Dripping with yummy honey. |
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| ABC Humane Wildlife Control saved some of the honeycomb and mounted it in a frame. |
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| Look what else ABC Humane Wildlife Company gave the Feldmans! |
Thank you to the Feldman family for sharing their artifacts. We have enjoyed seeing the honeycomb up close and smelling the delicious honey!
Collecting Data and Graphing
We identified our task, titled our graphs, sorted and counted, and represented our data in bar graph form so we could analyze our results. Ask your child what questions they asked their partners about the results!
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