Bridges Blog Archive for Grade 1

Just finishing up your first grade penguin unit? Did you happen to read Mr. Popper's Penguins to your class? You might want to glance at this news video (advertising is included on the page), depicting a King penguin living in Japan who takes a daily walk, backpack strapped on, to shop for fish. It looks like a scene from an unpublished chapter of the book.

For your calendar markers,  I will offer up four versions of February calendars. First are the calendar markers that you can download or purchase. The theme is 2-D Shapes Attributes Calendar Pattern, and the skills are to identify, describe, compare, and draw triangles, parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, squares and much more. The second example has a growing pattern my first graders came up with. Together we decided on the objects (I dictated the presidents.) They added flags and decided the pattern. How did they draw Lincoln and Washington?

While working on some grade one penguin resources, a student and I wanted to calculate the distance from Antarctica to our state. We found a website to calculate the distance from Antarctica to the United States, but found that the program allows you to do much more. You can click and drag the two points, giving you the ability to calculate distance between any two locations in the world.

If you're teaching the first grade penguin unit or just want to investigate a little penguin math, check out these resources:

On Mathwire:

Penguin Page!

Penguin Math Games