Week 2 of E Learning & Flipgrid Friday

Keep up the great work with your E learning, 1S!  So proud of the effort that you all are making to continue to work on your academic skills at your homes. 

We have a new tab on the blog with Read Alouds and activities to go with each book. Read Alouds are important for many reasons: increase attention span, enhance language development, improve  comprehension, encourage imagination, and foster a life-long interest in reading. 

Do you remember making a Flipgrid on the I-Pad in the classroom?  We are going to have Flipgrid Fridays, where we can respond and share ideas. 

If you have an I-pad, you can download the Flipgrid app.  If you have a computer or other device, simply click here.

Don't forget to enter this code:  2e5f072a           

You can also use this QR code to get there: 

Try it!  It will be super fun! 

Here are this week's plans for First Grade:

First Grade Plans March 30-April 3 

OB Specialsts BINGO Board

If you would like to complete some other activities, please check the Optional E Learning tab and the Read Aloud tabs on our blog. 

Week 1 of E Learning March 25-27

Hello 1S Families, 

We have missed you so much! We wish that we could begin our learning after Spring Break in person, but we get to try something exciting and new for a little while, E learning!  Might be exciting and fun to learn from our homes for a little while.  Take it day by day, and let's have fun with this! Please let us know if you have any questions along the way. we are here for you.  

Here are this week's plans for First Grade.  

First Grade Weekly Plans March 25-27

OB Specialists BINGO Board

If you would like to complete some other activities, please check the Optional E Learning tab on our Blog.  

Stay tuned, and check back on the blog on Friday morning! We've got a fun video activity planned where we get to see each other!

Putting on a Show with Light and Sound

During the 3rd quarter, students created a shadow puppet show by engineering a musical instrument out of recycled materials and making shadow puppets. 

Before building the instruments students learned that sounds are made of vibrations and sound can cause materials to vibrate. 

Students experimented with different instruments like rulers, palm pipes, and kazoos to learn about different types of pitch and rhythm that you can make with sound. 

Students experimented with vibrations through a rope simulation. 

Students went to our outdoor sound garden to experiment with recycled instruments.

Finally, students were ready to create their instruments out of recycled materials that they brought from home. 

After the instruments were created, it was time to learn about light.  Students learned about light source, light blocker, and a surface needed to create shadows.  They experimented with light and shadows.  Then they got ready to put on the shadow puppet show. 

After practices and trying out our shadows and instruments, we were ready to put on a show with light and sound! 

We really enjoyed this science unit!

We Are Americans

During the third quarter, students learned about the various aspects and features of being an American. As a culminating activity, students created what they felt would be a good American symbol.  

Students had to create a symbol and then share with the class the reasons they thought it would be a good American symbol.

Students learned about famous Black Americans and created a display honoring, the Greensboro Four at our Living Museum in the Old Bonhomme Library.  

The Greensboro Four were college freshmen, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond at North Carolina A & T State University. These young men decided to take a stand against segregation laws in the South. They agreed to sit together at a lunch counter at Woolworth's, a popular store and restaurant in the area and asked to be served.

The men started the lunch counter sit-ins in the South. More students joined the demonstration each day. Students in other North Carolina cities started their own sit-ins. The peaceful protests soon spread to other states in the South. The Greensboro Woolworth’s finally began serving members of the black community at its lunch counter on July 25, 1960, six months after the sit-in began.

The students made a replica of the lunch counter that the four college freshmen would have sat at during the sit-in at Woolworth's.  

They also made protest signs that had the same messages that people had on their protest signs outside of the restaurant during the sit-in. 

Students created drawings of the event and wrote about the Greensboro Four.

Learning about the Greensboro Four was humbling and inspiring.