FIELD TRIP! To the Western Reserve Historical Society!

Yesterday we went on our first class field trip to the Western Reserve Historical Society!  We have just finished studying how people lived long ago and we knew that this trip would let us see it all in person!

We were so excited when we first arrived...

First, we were taken on a tour through the Hay-McKinney House, which was built in 1911.

This is the children's room.                     

We thought this chair was so weird!

Next, our tour guide showed us some games that kids played with in the past.  We were allowed to try each game!  These toys and games made the things we play with today seem very fancy!

The last part of our tour let us investigate four different aspects of how living in Ohio has changed through the years.

1.  Transportation

2: Lighting our homes (we actually got to walk through rooms with different options of light through the years, the first started with just a fireplace and the last used electricity)

3: Cooking and preparing food



4: Building materials



After lunch, we had time to explore the rest of the museum on our own.  Here are some of our favorite things...






I think the train sets were our absolute favorite!

This was a fabulous end to our unit about how people lived in the past!

Holiday Card Exchange

We are participating in a Holiday Card Exchange with schools from all over the WORLD!

First, we made our own cards (it was glitter-mania!):

As we were making them, Max said it best when he said, "This is really getting me in the holiday spirit!"  We all agreed!

Now we are eagerly awaiting the mail delivery each day!  We already opened 13 cards!  With each card we learn information about different places around the world then we find them on the map!

Look at all the places we've received cards from already!

If you want more information on the holiday card exchange, you can find it here!

1st Graders Transform into Math Teachers

We are working on some pretty amazing things in 1st grade!

Everyone knows our math brains are constantly working and learning new things, so we decided to transform some 1st graders into teachers!!

We had a special technology teacher come in and show some students how to work a great new app on our iPads called ShowMe.  This let the students transform into the teachers!

If you need some strategies for adding 2-digit numbers, check out our videos below!!

Gingerbread Math

Today we showed off our adding and subtracting skills by making our very own gingerbread boys and girls!

First, we had to answer some tough questions using strategies like counting on a number grid or building the numbers with base 10 blocks.

As we found the sums and differences, we were able to build our gingerbread boys and girls!

Check them out below!