Firefighter's Visit

The Boulder Firefighters came to visit the first grade today. The firefighters reviewed the safe meeting place homework with the classes. They also talked about some important fire safety rules in the event of a fire in your house. The classes were very good listeners!

Learning About Solids and Liquids

In science we have been learning about solids and liquids. One of our focus questions is: What makes solids and liquids different?  We have also been exploring the properties of both. Thank you for your excellent responses to the question we posed in the parent journal. Your responses honed in some important information and also provided some addition learning which was super fun!

Student Organized Brain Break

They came up with this Brain Break on their own! So sweet!!

Introducing Red Lightning and the AquaFarm!

Our AquaFarm is up and running. Red Lightning is the name of our Betta fish. The kids nominated names and Red Lightning had the most votes. Great name!! On the top of the tank we are growing wheat grass and basil. It is a small personal ecosystem where the fish feed the plants and the plants clean the water. Pretty cool! We are exploring the science of aquaponics. We will experiment over the school year with other plants also. Here is the link for the AquaFarm if you want to read a bit more about our project: https://www.backtotheroots.com/