Throughout the year the girls have learned a variety of tech skills using many different apps.  Below is a list of the apps that they used this year.

Art Set
Barefoot World Atlas
Base Ten BINGO
BrainPop Jr.
Comptines et chansons
Computer Arts: Visualator
Dinosaurs Kids Math HD
Educreations
Explain Everything
Freefall Money
Google Earth
iBooks
iMotion
Kid Weather
Kodable
learn French Vocabulary
Magnabet
Math Doodles
Math Tappers: Find Sums
MoMA Art Lab
Monkey Word School Adventure
Montessori Crosswords
Montessori Numbers
Motion Math: Hungry Fish Pro
My Story
Pic Collage
Scratch Jr.
Scribble Press
Smart Speller
Student Clicker
Tell Time
Textropolis
The Foos
This is Not an App
Toca Builders
Visual Math 2
Word BINGO
Word Wall HD
World Book's World of Animals

Duckling Days

Yesterday was a day to remember for our girls and our three adorable ducklings.  We took them to the Lower School field for their first outing.  Each girl had a turn to hold a ducking and you can see their delight in the photos below.  Also, it was fun watching the ducklings explore the outdoors and the best part was when Mrs. Gandhi and Miss Lacy had to catch them for their return trip to the classroom!!

See you at the Lower School Field tomorrow, May 22, 2015, at 12:30PM for our First Grade Family Picnic!!!  Please bring your lunch and a blanket.

We are very EGGcited to announce....

...the birth of 3 new ducklings.  The First Graders arrived at school today just in time to watch our first 2 mallard ducklings hatch from their eggs.  We sat in a giant circle around the incubator and watched with awe as the ducklings made their way into the world.  Another duckling hatched during Recess today, and we may have a few more join our class in the next few days.



Enjoy the videos below and stay tuned for more news!

French: La Glace

In French class today the girls had a blast pretending to visit Berthillon, a French ice cream shop.  They ordered their ice cream in French and enjoyed their treat outside on the playground.  The girls have been working very hard on learning how to order in French.  We even had time to play a French playground game.

Fractions and More Eggs!

This week in Math, the First Graders have started to learn about fractions.  They have enjoyed learning about this topic with cookies and playdough!  In Science, we are learning more about what is happening inside of our fertilized Mallard duck eggs. We have cracked open eggs from the grocery store for the girls to see the inside up close, and today we "candled" our duck eggs and saw an air sac, the yolk and even some veins!  We are getting very excited!

From the Library

First graders have been conducting a Chocolate Milk Experiment. Girls have noticed that the chocolate milk they drink at recess has numbers stamped on the bottom of the cartons.
Question: Do the numbers tell how chocolaty the milk is?
Hypothesis: 4 is the most chocolaty and 1 is the least
 In library class we tasted samples of the four milks, disguised as star, moon, triangle and circle. We tallied our results, comparing findings between the two classes, each of which had several teams of tasters. Then we found out which shapes matched which numbers.
Some tasters thought milk 2 was the most chocolaty. Some thought 3. Most thought 3 and 4 milk were about the same. Some thought 2, 3 and 4 were about the same. All tasters agreed that 1 milk was the least chocolaty.
Now we are writing a letter to Mr. Dewey, the owner of the dairy in Pennsylvania, to let him know our findings and to thank him for the delicious milk.
A few girls have been saying that 4 milk is the luckiest milk. We are not sure how to test this theory.