Well Boys and Girls,
Our first chrysalis has emerged as a butterfly and has started his migration journey to Mexico. Bobbie and I let him go Saturday afternoon. We now have 5 chrysalis working their magic. Hopefully we will get to see them emerge next week.
I have to say I'm really liking this nice cool air. I had all of my windows open in my house and it was nice to feel the crisp air.
I finished a book I was reading. Have you been reading this weekend? Don't forget to pick up a book or magazine or even the Sunday comics the think about the 3 ways you can read. 1. Read the pictures. 2. Read the words. 3.Retell the story in your own words.
Please check out our class web site @ http://www.fnwsu.org/highgate/dietsche/diethomepage.htm I updated everything. I have added pictures and the beautiful apple trees you made in the computer lab on Friday morning. Great job everyone.
Have a peaceful weekend.
Mrs. Dietsche
PS Don't forget to vote in my polls.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Thirsty Thursday
Another hot day in first grade. All we seem to want to do was drink water. Lots of kids brought in water bottles and we took lots of water breaks to help keep us cool.
Our class has been practicing our Daily 5 skills. We are up to 15 minutes with our read to self. We have been learning how to use all of the materials for working with words. We have been writing in our journals every day concentrating on spaces and periods and putting the date at the top of our pages.
Last night we had another caterpillar move into the chrysalis stage so now we have 5 in chrysalis. I'm sure this long weekend they will come out and spread their wings.
It's been a very hot week. I wish we had air conditioning for our classroom. Maybe some day.
In math we have been counting counting counting.
Mrs. Dietsche
Our class has been practicing our Daily 5 skills. We are up to 15 minutes with our read to self. We have been learning how to use all of the materials for working with words. We have been writing in our journals every day concentrating on spaces and periods and putting the date at the top of our pages.
Last night we had another caterpillar move into the chrysalis stage so now we have 5 in chrysalis. I'm sure this long weekend they will come out and spread their wings.
It's been a very hot week. I wish we had air conditioning for our classroom. Maybe some day.
In math we have been counting counting counting.
Mrs. Dietsche
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wet Wednesday
Hello Everyone,
We have had a very good start to our school year. We are into our 2nd week and it's a hot one. We are all sweating in this 90 degree heat. We have taken lots of water breaks and tried to keep the lights off as much as we can. It's a good thing that we have 2 fans blowing the hot air around our room.
Some exciting news is that we seem to have a monarch caterpillar farm in our room. Mrs. Hansen brought in several jars with caterpillars chomping on milkweeds to our classroom. One went into a chrysalis on the 2nd day and will emerge this week sometime. We came in one morning to find all the leaves in one jar gone (all eaten) and one caterpillar in chrysalis stage and 3 more on the sides of the glass. 2 were just little tiny babies. We didn't realize that there were eggs on the leaves. As the morning progress one child saw another baby in another jar. We moved all active caterpillars to our butterfly netted box. I put some fresh milkweed leaves in for them to munch on. At the end of that day I just happened to look at the ziplock bag with our extra leaves and noticed some "caterpillar poop" in it. When I looked inside there was another caterpillar munching away. So we are loaded we caterpillars and chrysalis'. We have been observing the changes everyday. It has been very exciting for our class. We can't wait for them to emerge from their chrysalis'. We hope it happens while we are in school and not over a weekend but Mother Nature may have different ideas.
We have been checking out lots of books for butterfly life cycle information. We have about 10 books with lots of pictures. Many pictures match what we are doing in class.
This year our school is studying the country of Mexico. Our monarch butterfly project is a great tie-in. Our butterflies will be making the long journey to Mexico as part of their migration track. We will be participating with other classes in an internet project on the Butterfly migration. I am so glad our class can experience this first hand.
I'm glad you stopped by to check out what's happening in first grade. Leave us a comment below and be sure to vote in our butterfly survey.
Mrs. Dietsche
We have had a very good start to our school year. We are into our 2nd week and it's a hot one. We are all sweating in this 90 degree heat. We have taken lots of water breaks and tried to keep the lights off as much as we can. It's a good thing that we have 2 fans blowing the hot air around our room.
Some exciting news is that we seem to have a monarch caterpillar farm in our room. Mrs. Hansen brought in several jars with caterpillars chomping on milkweeds to our classroom. One went into a chrysalis on the 2nd day and will emerge this week sometime. We came in one morning to find all the leaves in one jar gone (all eaten) and one caterpillar in chrysalis stage and 3 more on the sides of the glass. 2 were just little tiny babies. We didn't realize that there were eggs on the leaves. As the morning progress one child saw another baby in another jar. We moved all active caterpillars to our butterfly netted box. I put some fresh milkweed leaves in for them to munch on. At the end of that day I just happened to look at the ziplock bag with our extra leaves and noticed some "caterpillar poop" in it. When I looked inside there was another caterpillar munching away. So we are loaded we caterpillars and chrysalis'. We have been observing the changes everyday. It has been very exciting for our class. We can't wait for them to emerge from their chrysalis'. We hope it happens while we are in school and not over a weekend but Mother Nature may have different ideas.
We have been checking out lots of books for butterfly life cycle information. We have about 10 books with lots of pictures. Many pictures match what we are doing in class.
This year our school is studying the country of Mexico. Our monarch butterfly project is a great tie-in. Our butterflies will be making the long journey to Mexico as part of their migration track. We will be participating with other classes in an internet project on the Butterfly migration. I am so glad our class can experience this first hand.
I'm glad you stopped by to check out what's happening in first grade. Leave us a comment below and be sure to vote in our butterfly survey.
Mrs. Dietsche
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