Friday, December 19, 2014

Happy Holidays




Thank you to all of our volunteers today. Our Holiday Crafts were a huge success. Everyone did a great job and each student will be bringing home some beautiful artwork today. 

I wish you all a very happy holiday season and hope you get to spend quality time with your families!!

See you in 2015! 














Thursday, December 18, 2014

Holiday Crafts & PJ's

Tomorrow we will be having a holiday crafting event from 9:00-10:15 in our classroom. Students are also welcome to wear their PJ's to school tomorrow to celebrate earning over $200 Otter Bucks this month.

Reaching New Heights in First Grade

  It may be wet out there, but first graders still know how to enjoy the snow!


Friday, December 12, 2014

Holiday Helpers: We Want You

The first grade team is hoping to host a craft morning or afternoon next Friday. We would like to have parent volunteers to help run various stations. Please email me if you are able to help out. 

Thank you!

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Ginger Bread Fun

Yesterday Mrs. Krom visited our classroom and helped us decorate our ginger bread house. Thank you for all of the candy donations; we had plenty! While waiting their turn, students enjoyed decorating a house of their own as well!














Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Boss of My Body: Class Council Lesson

This week in class council, Ms. Wheeler discussed good vs. bad touch and uncomfortable feelings. We talked about how some touch feels good (ex- a hug from mom, a kiss from grandpa, holding your teacher's hand) and some touch feels bad (when you are touched anywhere a bathing suit would cover).



We finished the lesson by creating a trust tree of adults students felt comfortable going to when they have uncomfortable thoughts. When you have a chance, please review this tree with your child and suggest other trusting adults your child can go to if someone is making them feel uncomfortable.



A letter will be going home with students after next week's class council. In the meantime, I'm sharing this music video with you that we watched today. All students seemed to enjoy it.





Thursday, December 4, 2014

Concert tonight!!!

Please join us tonight at 6:30 for our Winter Concert!  Students should arrive at 6:15. If you would like a good viewing of the first grade students, make sure to sit on the right side of the gym. The right side when looking at the bleachers. 

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Help: We NEED Candy

Next week we will be decorating a ginger bread house together. Right now, we do not have any candy to decorate it with. If you would be willing to donate some candy, please send it in (wrapped) before next week.



Afternoon Activities

Yesterday we spent the afternoon completing several activities at once. There were 5 students to a station and we rotated every ten minutes or so. The stations included handwriting, typingclub.com, digital painting, journals, and an art project.












Tuesday, November 25, 2014

November School-Wide Reward

We enjoyed a movie and popcorn today to celebrate otter bucks earned during the month of November, with the focus behavior being, "do what you're told the first time you are asked".





Check Out Our Audio Book

Friday, November 21, 2014

Pilgrim Study Continued

Today we wrote a class book discussing the differences between life for the pilgrims and life today. Next, each student was responsible for illustrating one of those differences. Next week we will be turning our book into an audiobook that we will share with you! Here are some pictures of our book in the making. 









Relax Reading

To end our week, we enjoyed Relax Reading this afternoon. All students were able to choose a special place throughout the room to read with a pillow, tent, bin or beanbag. Students who demonstrated strong CSR behavior all week were able to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate while reading. I am hopeful that all students will be able to enjoy hot chocolate after Thanksgiving break.









Rolling the Dice

This week we have continued our study of the number 10. We have also spent some time playing various math games. One dice game requires students to roll three dice then add up the sum. Some students are starting to see a relationship between two numbers. For example: 5+6+1. If they add 5+1 first they can then add 6+6, making the equation easier.









Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

We had a wonderful time at the Lebanon Opera House this morning. The show included several Kevin Henkes stories, all with Lilly as the main character.



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Beginning Our Study Of Pilgrims

After reading about the Pilgrims and their voyage to America, I asked students the following:

"How would you describe life for the Pilgrims when they first arrived?"

Each student gave me a word or thought and together we create this Wordle to represent our answer. 


Monday, November 17, 2014

Reminder: Field Trip this Wednesday

Just a friendly reminder, we have a field trip to the Lebanon Opera House on Wednesday to see Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Please make sure your child wears appropriate clothing and shoes as well as a jacket.

We will return to school in time for lunch.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Technology in the Classroom

The first grade has been given 20 Netbooks to use. We are still awaiting a cart to store them on, but that hasn't stopped us from using them. Students are learning how to log onto the computers independently as well as navigate online to a typing website to practice our typing skills.

If anyone would like their child to practice at home, here is the website. 

www.typingclub.com

Once there, simply click "get started" and students can begin practicing on Level 1



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Working With Ten

In math, we are looking at combinations to ten and their relationship with each other. Students are working with equations as well as word problems.