There seems to be an abundance of things happening right now. We have Village on Friday, and there is a ton still to be done. I am in the midst of a "reading is thinking" unit, and get observed on a lesson from that unit tomorrow. We're finishing a unit in math, all the while trying to figure out what an equivalent fraction is without calling it that (1st grade... more seeing the equivalency than naming it). Plus... caterpillars came on Friday afternoon! Oy Vey!
Back up a few weeks. Originally I was planning to teach a science unit on Organisms like the other 2 first grade classes. We didn't get a kit, and we were going to be planting plants for Village... so I went it without the kit. After a few weeks (as we do science once a week, and flip flop with social studies) I got a little stumped, as I am A) not a brilliant scientist and B) not much of a scientist at all. In talking with TeacherWife I elected to get some caterpillars. The overarching idea behind the Organisms kit is "What do living things need to survive?" and this seemed to fit perfectly.
Well, it has (perhaps) made for a little too jammed of a day. Between butterfly/caterpillar journals, lavender sachets, sticky notes for reading, and small cut outs of paper (representing 1/8ths), we've got a ton happening. Perhaps that is just the way it is supposed to be.
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