Turning 1st Graders into Egyptologist

 My 1st grade Study Group is up and running!  In order to get them thinking like Egyptologist, we started with some synthesizing activities and Post-It notes.  Basically, Post-Its make any activity super amazing and special!  Before any information was presented, I had my little ones complete the sentence "In my mind Egypt is..." by writing or drawing it.  As we have gathered more information, we have added to our poster.  Here is how our thinking currently looks!

Wow!  Look how blank this poster was when we first started!  Lots of thinking has definitely been taking place!  AWESOME!!!

WANTED!

To help us in picking the fairy tale we put on trial, each student represented a different fairy tale and chose three different characters we could charge.  They put their information on wanted posters that I adapted from a cute lower grades one I discovered on Pinterest!  Check out how wonderfully they turned out!  I loooooove the great thought that went into them!  Also, I get so excited to see these kids looking at the characters through different perspectives and finding charges for "those seemingly innocent" characters!

A Little Buoyancy

This picture is to document what happened to our experiment when the 2nd Graders left the room.  You see, the other day we were studying buoyancy in our Ocean Study Group.  Did you know when you drop a carrot into fresh water it sinks to the bottom, but as you mix in salt the carrot rises?  Eventually the carrot will float at the top of the water.  My kids wanted to know what happened after the carrots hung out in the water for awhile.  Since I only see them once a week, I decided to document it!  After our awesome experiment, we played The Crazy Professor Game and recorded our thoughts!  Here's one of my kids takes on what we learned: