Now I am busy getting our classroom ready for a new school year! The 15-16 school year is going to be STUPENDOUS. We are going to do some fun, challenging STEM activities. You will get to hang out with our friends in buddy class every Friday. We will do our best and get smarter every day. I'm excited to meet you! Start getting excited!
I hope you have all had an awesome, fun, and relaxing summer. I enjoyed reading lots of books, watching TV shows, and hanging out with my friends and family. For the 4th of July, Mr. Austin and I went to Buffalo, New York, with my family. This is a picture of us right before the fireworks started.
Now I am busy getting our classroom ready for a new school year! The 15-16 school year is going to be STUPENDOUS. We are going to do some fun, challenging STEM activities. You will get to hang out with our friends in buddy class every Friday. We will do our best and get smarter every day. I'm excited to meet you! Start getting excited!
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We did so many fun things today for the 100th day of school. Check out some of our activities in the pictures below! Our Old First GradersA few of the students came dressed up as if they were 100 years old. We had a blast seeing their creative outfits! 100th Day Math CentersAfter writing about how we would spend $100, we spent some time doing math centers. The students rotated through 4 centers where they wrote 100 things they knew, decorated hats with 100 items, solved a puzzle, and wrote their name to fill 100 boxes. It was a lot of fun, and quite a challenge, too! 100 is a big number! Thumbs up!Probably our favorite part of the day was doing a craft with our buddy class. Our buddy class comes to visit us every Friday and it is the highlight of our week! We wrote "Thumbs up! I am 100 days smarter!" in the middle of a piece of paper. Then we made 100 thumbprints! It was fun to use paint, and we also enjoyed helping friends in our buddy class. When we are 100...We finished out the day by taking some VERY silly pictures. The kids were cracking up seeing themselves as "old people"! So, without further ado, here are some very old first graders! Today was our first day of PUMPKIN WEEK! We have been waiting so long for this awesome week! Today we put together our pumpkin books and "met" our table pumpkins. Then each student drew a picture of their pumpkin in their book. We are lucky to have pumpkins of all shapes and sizes! Our last pumpkin activity for the day was measuring the height of our pumpkins. Here are some pictures of the table groups showing how many cubes it took to measure their pumpkins. Hooray, we are published authors! Thank you for supporting us for our first Author's Cafe of the year. It was great to see many parents and guests from our school. The students all felt so proud of their hard work. Our next Author's Cafe will probably be in December. Be on the lookout for another invitation! Next time the invitation will come earlier so that parents have more time to plan. We'd love to have as many guests as possible. :]
Every day we participate in a 30 minute segment called "Champion's Review." During this time we review different math concepts, like tens and ones, tens frames, tally marks, weather, 120 charts, graphing, and more. This past week we have been encouraging the students to write complete sentences about the weather. Two of our students, JW and EK, wrote awesome sentences!
After several weeks, we have finally learned about all of the components of Daily 5! We started off with Read to Self and spent a few weeks working on building our stamina. We got so excited each time we gained more "reading muscle." Then, we introduced Read to Buddy, which is always a class favorite! After Read to Self and Read to Buddy, we learned about Listen to Reading. The class was happy to learn that in 1st grade, we do listening on the Kindles! Over the past couple of weeks we have learned about Work on Writing and Work on Words. There are so many fun ways we can become better readers through our Daily 5! Now we are slowly moving towards making our own rotation choices. Right now we are rotating with our reading group, but soon we will be able to pick our own rotations! Here are some photos of the kids in each of the different centers this past week. Click each photo to enlarge and read the caption.
Thank you to all of the parents that attended Curriculum Night! It was wonderful to see so many folks taking an interest in their child's education. If you were not able to attend, I have placed the handout and the presentation I used on the Resources page of the website. I will also be sending home the handout, our class schedule, and the 1st grade curriculum letter in your child's BEE binder. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!
We have had a great start to the 2014-2015 school year. So far there are 20 students in our class. We have spent the first 12 days of school working on learning lots of procedures. The kiddos are becoming experts at first grade expectations and procedures! I am proud of how hard they are working. To learn more about our class, please join us at Curriculum Night tomorrow, August 21st, at 6:15PM
I can't believe it is already summer break! I hope all of you are enjoying some free time to spend with family and relax. Here are some of the photos from our last bit of school. This first group of photos is from our class party. I also got pictures of some of the students sharing how they feel about the transition to second grade. They're going to be great! The students worked very hard to present short plays to the class. For over a week they practiced reading their lines with fluency and expression. They also got to spend some time making hats for their characters and a background for their play. Here are some photos I snapped during the presentations. And finally, the last day of school! We celebrated at the end of the day with one of our favorite activities: dancing! Have a great summer! I'll see you in the fall!
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