Wrapping up our unit on Community and moving on to the next... Living Things

Have you come by the ES foyer lately and noticed the beautiful TAISM Community mural that our 1st Graders from all three classes have created? If not, please drop by one day. Our first Social Studies unit on Community has come to an end. After gathering information from the members of the TAISM community through interviews, we finished the unit by creating an enormous mural that features many of our community members about their jobs and some fun facts. Thank you for all the parent volunteers who helped us in creating this giant eye-catching mural. We couldn't have done it without you!

Moving on, our next Science unit is "Living Things". What is a living thing? What do living things need? How can we group living things by looking at their physical characteristics? This week, our scientists began thinking about these questions by browsing and reading nonfiction books and looking at photos about various living things. In the upcoming weeks, we will studying different plants and animals and observing and studying closely to what they need to reproduce, grow and survive. We will also be having guest speakers to share with us their expertise in different living things seen in Oman, and how humans affect animal habitats and what we can do to help preserve. "Living Things" will be the talk of the town in the 1st Grade hallway!!