Walking Field Trip

On Thursday as a culmination to our map unit, we took a walking field trip around our town. We highlighted our route on our maps before leaving so we could follow along as we walked. We stopped by the fire station, library, post office, city hall, our gazebo and the museum. At the fire station the wonderful firefighters had their water hoses out in a fun maze for us to walk through. At the library we heard a story acted out with puppets by the librarian called the Spider and The Fly. At the post office we mailed letters we had written to our friends in the envelopes we had addressed. At city hall we met the city manager, took a tour and received a sweet little goody bag. At the gazebo we enjoyed our sack lunches. At the museum we enjoyed a popsicle treat, walked through several parts of the museum and asked questions. The students were so well behaved and had a wonderful time!

We Like Library!

This is the library.

They're headed to the carpet to listen to a story.

We like looking for books.

We like to checkout books.

We love them!

 Justine, Calley and J's Favorite books!

We like reading our books.

This was another post completely designed by these amazing first graders! They wow me more and more each day. It was so fun to see them working together to brainstorm ideas, choose the most important parts to highlight and plan the order of pictures and words! Best of all they didn't know they were practicing teamwork, sequencing, describing the main idea and details and learning about compromising. 

Thanks to everyone who follow our adventures! If you would like to comment, you're welcome to. I think the students would enjoy seeing and "hearing" that their families and friends are looking at their posts, especially that they are doing most of the planning now. (All comments are screened first and will not be viewable until approved.)