Tuesday, September 05, 2006
We did line juggling today. You’re probably asking yourself, “What’s line juggling?” We juggled with sponges. The sponges were pink, blue, and yellow. We’re in two straight lines of ten on each side, facing each other. We pass the sponges diagonally down the lines. At the end of the line, we send it back the opposite diagonal way. Then we add another sponge to it and see if we can do it with two at a time. Today we even did three for a while. When we had three sponges it was harder because there was so much to keep track of. It was really fun.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
We sang songs and played a game in music. The song was called Bluebird. It goes like this:
Here comes a bluebird
In through my window
Hey diddle dumma day
Day, day.
Take a little partner
Tap him on the shoulder
Hey diddle dumma day
Day, day.
The game went with the song. Everyone sang while one person walked around the circle. When it said “Take a little partner and tap him on the shoulder, the person walking around tapped someone. The person who got tapped became the walker.
The first graders did different math than the second graders did. The first graders got to explore using calculators, geoblocks, cubes, and pattern blocks. Then they learned the game called Compare. The second graders explored with sets of 10 cubes, and then they got to use the geoblocks, pattern blocks, and cubes too, while the first graders were doing calculators.
It was our first library day of the year. We read a librarian book called Library Lil by Suzanne Williams. It was about a strong, unusual librarian. When the power went out and the battery died on her bus, she pushed her bookmobile through 80 m.p.h. winds. She could pick up 12 motorcycles, one at a time, and throw them out of her way into the street. Since she did that, the motorcycle guys said they would read a book, and then they all became readers like Library Lil.
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