Holidays Around the World- Update

Today we learned about the holiday Diwali celebrated in India. We learned that Diwali is known as the Festival of Lights and people decorate with many lights including paper lanterns. We watched a video about Diwali, which you can check out below. We also made our own paper lanterns and recorded some of the information that we learned. 

http://youtu.be/HrrW3rO51ak

Holidays Around the World- Update

Today Globe Trot Scott sent us a package from Israel. We learned about the holiday Hanukkah. We were lucky enough to have a guest speaker, Mrs. Kravet, come in to tell us all about how her family celebrates. She even taught us how to play dreidel! 

Holidays Around the World

In first grade we are learning all about holidays and traditions from around the world. To help us learn, we are following the travels of Globe Trot Scott. Each day he sends us a package from a new part of the world that he is visiting. The package contains information about the country, a letter to our class, and a souvenir that shows how people there celebrate a December holiday. We have also been reading books, watching videos, and listening to guest speakers share about their traditions. 

So far Globe Trot Scott has sent us packages from the United States where we've learned about Christmas and Kwanzaa. Today our package was from Italy and we learned about Italian Christmas traditions.

We are excited to see where Globe Trot Scott takes us next! 

Teen Numbers and Place Value

Last week in math we worked on teen numbers and recognizing place value in numbers between 10 and 20. We looked at double ten frames that showed numbers in the teens, built the same numbers out of unifix cubes, and wrote and solved addition problems to match. This will help to begin building our understanding of place value, and our computation up to 20.