Zoo Field Trip

We had a great time on our zoo field trip a few weeks ago! Here are a few pictures from our adventure.

This Week in 1st Grade

This week in first grade, we learned about the Green Sea turtle! Did you know they can hold their breath up to 1 hour under water?

We also came up with creative adjectives, verbs and prepositional phrases to help write about the Great White Shark!
-Endangered misunderstood great white sharks dive in the coral reef.

We also started working on our class paragraph about the great white shark. We still have some more work to do, but we have a great start... as you can see below!

Here are a few of our team task pictorials we did on our Australian animals!

We are now on our second to last continent in the world. Can you guess which one it is? 

 Justin- Did you know that koalas have babies that are the size of a jellybean?
Aabha- Koalas live in Australia and in eucalyptus forests.
Abbi- Did you know that koalas are marsupials and carry their babies in a pouch when they are born?
Mackenzie- Did you know that koalas aren't very social?
Isaac B- Did you know that they only eat eucalyptus leave and there are 12 different kinds of eucalyptus trees?
Matthew- Koalas have fuzzy ears and babies are called joeys.
Sydnee- Did you know that koalas are herbivores?
Zachary- They have sharp claws that are good for climbing.
Lucas R- Koalas don't drink very much water, they get most from eucalyptus trees.
Nevaeh- Koalas are grey and have black noses.
Peyton- Did you know koalas have two opposable thumbs to grasp trees with?

Erik- Did you know that sharks attack turtles?
Rafaele- Did you know that great white sharks can ambush?
Colin- Did you know that great white shares skeletons are made of cartilage?
Yaretzi- Did you know the females are bigger than the males?
Mahit- Did you know that great white sharks are carnivores?
Timothy- Did you know that great white sharks eat sea lions?
Isaac B- Did you know great white sharks have to keep moving because they have to keep on getting oxygen from the water?
Peyton- Did you know that great white sharks can swim on the surface and 820 feet deep?
Braden- Did you know that great white sharks are not the top predator of the see?
Nevaeh- Did you know they can live to be 70 years old?
Lucas R- Did you know that great white sharks can leap clear out of the water?
Justin- Great white sharks have babies alive like some other sharks!
Mackenzie- Did you know great white sharks attack from the bottom?
Matthew- Did you know that great white sharks can weigh up to 5,000 pounds?
Zachary- They can spyhop! They can smell blood over 3 miles away.
Aabha- They can swim up to 15-20 miles per hour.
Alisha- Did you know that great white sharks favorite food is seals?

Animal Kingdom Visit by Aabha

When I was in animal kingdom, me and my family went on a safari. I saw lots of animals that lived in Africa. the animals were the okapi, giraffe, lion, lioness, African elephant, ring, cheataa, hippo, spotted dogs, antelope, spring buck, crocodiles, and zebras. We also saw a baobab tree. We went on a ride called expedition everest. It was very fun to go to animal kingdom! There was also a lion guard festival! I really enjoyed animal kingdom!

STEAM Giraffe challenge

Three rules, 10 pipe cleaners, one bonus challenge and 26 first graders! What do you get? Some awesome giraffes engineered by six and seven year olds. Enjoy!

Mackenzie- I really liked it because we got ours to stand up.
Aabha- I really liked the giraffe building because we got to work together and I got an experience.
Justin- Me and Colin worked together and my friends kept asking "what's your secret" and we said we just tried. Me and Colin did two giraffes and one had ossicones and one didn't.
Erik- I liked it because my second giraffe worked but the first one didn't.
Zachary- I didn't like it because we tried 100 times but the giraffe wouldn't stay up.
Mahit- I didn't like our giraffe because it was very small.
Braden- My one thing I didn't like is it took a lot of time to think about it but what I did like is that it started to stand up when we we thought about it a little more.