First Grade Odds and Ends

Here are a few things we have been doing this week.

In Junior Achievement, we practiced map-reading skills and the directions North, East, South, and West, as we drove this green car to various businesses and other locations on the map.

We walked over to the middle school to watch the 5th Grade vs. Staff end-of-year basketball game. The 5th Graders won in overtime!

Our brassica plants are beginning to die, but they have produced plenty of seed pods for planting in the future!

The silkworms are big enough that if the room is silent, and you put your ear close, you can actually hear them chewing.

Our mealworms are still growing and changing. Holding them and observing them has continued to be a favorite First Grade pastime.

different stages in the life cycle

This one almost turned from a pupa into a beetle before our eyes!