Comments for First Feature: Journeys through 1st Grade Learning http://ksonner.edublogs.org Exploring and growing together! Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:53:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 Comment on Tide Pools by raine22 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-8 raine22 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:53:41 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-8 Hi Ms. Sonner and first grade students, I was interested in reading about your journey to explore the tide pool in October. It sounds like you had a terrific day! The ocean is an amazing place with so many interesting creatures to learn about. One of the projects that my students enjoy is called The Vendee Globe Project. A sailor from Massachusetts who loves being out at sea and telling students about his adventure is sailing around the world in a sailboat race. He has a really big 60 foot monohaul that can go up to 22 knots if the conditions are good. As he is sailing around the world, he is sharing some of the things that he sees and learns on his journey. All of my first graders look at the map to see where he is each week. This week he is heading east toward Africa. I listen to his podcasts and read his blogs. Then I show pictures of some of the things that he posts on his websites to the children. They love hearing about the flying fish that he saw around the equator and the albatross that he saw in the Southern Ocean. Today he was talking about how important it is to take care of our oceans. Some of you mentioned that some pollution is visible and some pollution (like chemicals) are hard to see, but they can cause problems for the sealife. I hope that if you have time, you will look at some of the pictures and the map during the next few months. (It takes about 100 days to sail around the world, so the site will be up even after the busy December holiday season.) Thanks for sharing about your trip to the tide pool and for all of your interesting observations that you made there. Here is the site where you can learn about the voyage. http://www.sitesalive.com and here is a site that science.net has for information about the voyage http://ehrweb01.aaas.org/sail/ Your teacher can look at the racetracking map at this link as well. http://www.vendeeglobe.org Enjoy your blogging! Hi Ms. Sonner and first grade students,
I was interested in reading about your journey to explore the tide pool in October. It sounds like you had a terrific day! The ocean is an amazing place with so many interesting creatures to learn about. One of the projects that my students enjoy is called The Vendee Globe Project. A sailor from Massachusetts who loves being out at sea and telling students about his adventure is sailing around the world in a sailboat race. He has a really big 60 foot monohaul that can go up to 22 knots if the conditions are good. As he is sailing around the world, he is sharing some of the things that he sees and learns on his journey. All of my first graders look at the map to see where he is each week. This week he is heading east toward Africa. I listen to his podcasts and read his blogs. Then I show pictures of some of the things that he posts on his websites to the children. They love hearing about the flying fish that he saw around the equator and the albatross that he saw in the Southern Ocean. Today he was talking about how important it is to take care of our oceans. Some of you mentioned that some pollution is visible and some pollution (like chemicals) are hard to see, but they can cause problems for the sealife. I hope that if you have time, you will look at some of the pictures and the map during the next few months. (It takes about 100 days to sail around the world, so the site will be up even after the busy December holiday season.) Thanks for sharing about your trip to the tide pool and for all of your interesting observations that you made there.
Here is the site where you can learn about the voyage. http://www.sitesalive.com
and here is a site that science.net has for information about the voyage
http://ehrweb01.aaas.org/sail/
Your teacher can look at the racetracking map at this link as well. http://www.vendeeglobe.org
Enjoy your blogging!

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by Kristin http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Kristin Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:16:48 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-7 Wow, it sounds like a wonderful day! Having been in your shoes, and seeing the excitement of the students, and adults, it makes it all worth while. Doesn't it? How lucky to have such opportunities. Wow, it sounds like a wonderful day! Having been in your shoes, and seeing the excitement of the students, and adults, it makes it all worth while. Doesn’t it? How lucky to have such opportunities.

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by Karen Sonner http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Karen Sonner Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:52:04 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-6 In the rush to meet curriculum demands and learning new programs that are suppose to improve our students learning, it is easy to let go of some of these projects that bring real world experiences to our students. This field trip is my reminder that all people learn better when they can make a connection and these valuable learning experiences need to be made a priority and not pushed aside in order to get to the next lesson. In the rush to meet curriculum demands and learning new programs that are suppose to improve our students learning, it is easy to let go of some of these projects that bring real world experiences to our students. This field trip is my reminder that all people learn better when they can make a connection and these valuable learning experiences need to be made a priority and not pushed aside in order to get to the next lesson.

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by Myrna Gutfreund http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Myrna Gutfreund Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:55:07 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-5 Karen, I loved reading about your field trip. Iv'e always wanted to go and visit a tide pool with some activity. I've either gone at the wrong time of day or wrong season. It's nice to have a tide pool in the classroom but what a thrill for the students to actually see the "real thing" and go out there as scientists confirming what they've learned in the classroom as well as making new discoveries. Karen,
I loved reading about your field trip. Iv’e always wanted to go and visit a tide pool with some activity. I’ve either gone at the wrong time of day or wrong season. It’s nice to have a tide pool in the classroom but what a thrill for the students to actually see the “real thing” and go out there as scientists confirming what they’ve learned in the classroom as well as making new discoveries.

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by Karen Sonner http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Karen Sonner Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:09:42 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-4 Anne, This initial set up took me an hour because I was playing around with all the administrator tools and just figuring it out. I am hoping my audience is any teachers, parents and friends interested sharing discussion and topics on first graders or learning. Anne,
This initial set up took me an hour because I was playing around with all the administrator tools and just figuring it out. I am hoping my audience is any teachers, parents and friends interested sharing discussion and topics on first graders or learning.

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by anne Kress http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-3 anne Kress Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:05:43 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-3 Karen, Another first! Wow! How much time has this taken you to do? Who do you envision to be your audience to be, besides the people in the Web2.0 class? Karen,

Another first! Wow! How much time has this taken you to do? Who do you envision to be your audience to be, besides the people in the Web2.0 class?

]]> Comment on Tide Pools by Priscilla Kotyk http://ksonner.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/tide-pools/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Priscilla Kotyk Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:39:19 +0000 http://ksonner.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-2 What a great opportunity for your students! I loved reading about the field trip and "listening in" on the student conversations. I am so happy that they are able to see themselves as scientists investigating a special part of nature. We are so lucky to be near the coast so that our students can see tide-pools first hand. What a great opportunity for your students! I loved reading about the field trip and “listening in” on the student conversations. I am so happy that they are able to see themselves as scientists investigating a special part of nature. We are so lucky to be near the coast so that our students can see tide-pools first hand.

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