Week Five: Balancing and Tree Planting Fun!

Tuesday the First Graders had their first INSTANT CHALLENGE! They had to make a balanced mobile and it proved to be a big challenge.

Students listen to their instant challenge.

The Challenge: To Create a Balanced Mobile

Alianna, Dakota, and Rylee work together to try to balance their mobile.  These three worked as a team and got their mobile to balance in the end.

 Olivia with her "thinking face" on high. 

Sawyer, Carsen, and Emma spent a lot of time going back to the drawing board and finally got their mobile to balance.

The three teams figured out that what you do to one side you have to do to the other. They also thought having shorter strings and a designated person to hold the stick made the task at hand easier. The students experienced some learning pains during this challenge. :)

Not only did we learn to balance our mobile through the Instant Challenge, but the students learned to identify if a number sentence was balanced. Was the number sentence TRUE or FALSE?

The forestry crew came over from Tok Forestry to teach the students the proper way to plant a tree. The students all got to plant several birch trees on the school property.

Peter Talus introducing the students to Tok Forestry Staff and telling the students their task.

 Our new Area Forester Derek shows Aiden how to plant a tree. 

 Alianna ans Sawyer plant a tree with Dar.

 Olivia and Emma make sure Don York gives their tree enough water.

 Forest talks to Rylee and Maycie about the best time to plant trees.

Carsen and Dakota learn all the parts of a tree and their functions from Steven.