Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Water Cycle, According to First Graders

The first grade Navigators learned 
all about the water cycle 
during our study of weather. 

Here we are, 
telling the story of  our water molecules 
going through all the stages of the cycle. 

Watch for scientific terms,
for charming artwork,
and for PERSONALITY PLUS!











Ta da! That is the water cycle 
that keeps going around and around!


And here's a song we sang to learn all the big scientific words:

The Water Cycle
set to the tune She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain

Water travels in a cycle, yes it does!
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does!

It goes up as evaporation,
It forms clouds as condensation,
Then comes down as precipitation,
Yes it does!

Friday, December 20, 2019

Snowflake Breakfast, Our Seabury Family Annual Tradition

Why are traditions important? 

They bring people together.

They teach important values, such as kind service.

They give us sweet memories.

They provide a sense of belonging.

They might involve BACON!

They are something to look forward to.

They fill our tummies and our souls.

They bring smiles to our faces. 

They are a loads of fun.

They bring out the silliness in us.

They make our hearts sing.

They make us "shake it all about."

They bless our hearts. 

Thank you, Seabury Parents, for organizing, stirring, flipping, serving, pouring, singing, dancing, and providing such a fun Seabury Family tradition!


Monday, December 9, 2019

Hour(s) of Code

What is Hour of Code? It's an annual event in December where we head into the computer lab and try a variety of one-hour long tutorials designed for all ages in over 45 languages.

We joined millions of students and teachers in over 180 countries. 

Check it out at https://code.org/learn. 

A big thank you to the middle schoolers who worked alongside us.

This is what "block" coding looks like.











Some of the tutorials we tried:
Dance Party 
Minecraft
Codables
CodeSpark Academy
Scratch
Flappy
Star Wars
Little Dot Adventure
Toxicode Compute-it

We ended up working well over an hour 
and plan to continue exploring the world of coding. 

Parents, have your children show you how! 



Sunday, December 8, 2019

Do the Math! Thanksgiving Surveys

One of our aims at Seabury School is to provide meaningful, real life projects for our students. After learning how to read graphs and how to order data, the Mathematicians (what I fondly call my students): 
  • chose a question
  • came up with a way to record their data
  • surveyed their lower school schoolmates and teachers
  • made a bar graph on graph paper
  • made computerized bar, line, and pie graphs
  • analyzed their findings

Here is the process and the results. Be sure to take note of their interesting questions.


















At the end of the week, we took a chapter test 
and EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS!

REAL MATH WORKS!!

Cue happy teacher dance!

First Grade-isms

A first grader recites 200+ digits of pi!