Thankfulness & Turkey Fact Fun

We are so thankful for the wonderful week that we've had! Here's a rundown of lots of our great fun ...

Last week we made 10 with our fingers & turkey feathers. We practic d making number sentences with more than two numbers. Aren't they all great!

We wrote an original poem about thankfulness together as a class.

You can also see Thanksgiving poems by each student on their blog. 

We even made turkey finger puppets!

We read lots of Thanksgiving books!

We made clay pots and inferred what the maker likes by their drawings. 

We attended a virtual field trip about turkeys with the Texas Wildlife Association. We learned so much!

Then we used the thumbprint turkey cards we made last week to share turkey facts! Each student made a video using their picture and the app ChatterPix.

Here's the final product! I bet you didn't know that turkeys poop differently if they are boys or girls?! Well, now you do! 

Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Zig's class!

Turkey Problems

We've been solving a lot of story problems, and having fun writing our own this week. Check out these really fun story problems by both 1st grade classes. We used Pic Collage to add the turkeys, then told a matching story problem in Book Creator.




You can write problems like this at home too! We LOVE drawing pictures to go with the problems we solve!

Bats! Bats! Bats!

We've read several bat books, and learned from videos and a virtual field trip too.

Here's a playlist of bat videos that we have either watched together or are using in stations to learn about bats.

Here are some of the things we learned already ...

Readers use mental images to help them make meaningful connections, visualize what's happening in a story, and remember information and stories to retell.

Here are some of our fantastic mental images about bats.

Some bats eat other animals. This bat is eating a small frog.

Mental images change as we read different things. 

Scientists call bats Chiroptera - which means hand-wing in Greek. Here's a mental image of a scientist calling a bat by its scientific name.

Here's a mental image of what echolocation might look like. 

Here's a bat in the night sky getting ready to eat insects!

Want to see more of our mental images and learning about bats? Visit our Kidblog where students post their own thinking! We'd love for you to leave us a comment with your thoughts!