What happens on a field trip....

Does not always stay on a field trip. Jason picked Reagan up from school today after her field trip. This is what she looked like when I got home and with half of it cleaned up. Most of the first grade class did their own face paint.

She was excited to go on her field trip to the Children's Science Museum, but even more excited when she found out that we were not able to go with her. I asked her how it was, she said it was great and throughout the evening she kept asking me if I wanted to hear about the rest of her day. I also asked her why it was more fun without a parent there....her response was that she was in control.

She does not know, I had a contact inside the school calling me with updates. She just thinks she had all of the control.

Taos trip Feb 09

Here is a little clip of our trip last year to ski in New Mexico. Mostly of Reagan, but you can see Avery in the first few seconds as well as most of the rest of us. This video makes me laugh, everytime, now only if we had video of Avery and her lack of control from the shoulders down.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ymmf9f8yA&feature=youtube_gdata

First grade math

Just for your viewing pleasure.....take a glimpse at some 1st grade math. Reagan seems to know the answers. Now if I only understood the method.

#6. Which sentences with 5 and 10 tell about the model.

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a. 5+2 = 7 c. 3+2= 5
7+3= 10 5+2= 7

b. 5+2= 7 d. 5+0= 5
6+4= 10 2+0= 2


#8 Mel counts 8 ants. Zema counts 5 ants. Which tells how many ants in all?

a. 5+3 = 8
b. 8+2= 10
c. 10+3 = 13
d 10+5 = 15


So who loves first grade math??? Me, not so much. That would be shown by 1 minus the group total. I will work towards a model to show that.

What ever happened to one number plus or minus another is fill in the blank?

Happy Halloween

Here are some pictures of the girls that Mom took on Halloween before our annual trip to Haunt the Zoo. A sweet girl from Kansas and a crazy hippee full of attitude and joined us this year.