Thanksgiving

Before Thanksgiving Break, we had fun learning about different Native American Tribes in America, and creating our own village. Each child chose a job in the community and created a teepee to live in, a canoe to fish in, and fire to cook with. After the village was finished, we made head dresses a Native American name. Some examples were: Tall Flower, Fast Arrow, One Who Shows Kindness, and Ku-Wa- Ku, which means "little chief."  We love incorporating Social Studies and History in our classroom! 

Election Day

On November 6th room 103 participated in Election Day along with the rest of America! We learned about voting, about the secret ballot, and a tiny bit about each candidate. We held our own election in class, and the kids had a great time! 

50th Day of School Sock Hop!

I am a bit behind (as usual!) but on Friday November 2nd we celebrated 50 Fantastic Days in First Grade! How do you celebrate the 50th day of school you say? Well what better way than a 50's sock hop! We dressed in 50's attire, took off our shoes and bunny hopped our way to the Gym. The kids had a blast doing the hand jive, the stroll and hoola hooping! We also enjoyed a yummy 50's treat- Root Beer Floats! All in all it was fun to go back in time and celebrate ( I must say- I love the cat eye glasses!) hehe! Love those little cuties!

Scholastic Books

Here is the link to our class scholastic book page:

https://orders.scholastic.com/LK3Y2

Story Book Character Day

Last Friday we celebrated Story Book Character Day! We all dressed up as our favorite Story book character and brought our book! 

Miss Frizzle and The Magic School Bus!

Batman!

Fancy Nancy

Smurfette 

Darth Vader 

Harry Potter

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Power Ranger

Barbie and her Pony

Cowboy 

Tom Sawyer

Rapunzel

Our Story Book Characters!

Llama Llama Misses Mama, Clifford, Miss Frizzle, and Splat the Cat!

Pumpkin Measurement

During the short 3 day week before Fall Break we studied pumpkins! We measured pumpkins with multiple non-standard units like: dominos, straws, paper clips, math counters and snap cubes. The kids did a great job estimating and checking. Later in the day we had some awesome parent volunteers come in and cook up some yummy pumpkin pancakes! It was a very pumpkin-filled day! Enjoy the pictures from this fun activity!

This picture slideshow made with Smilebox

Johnny Appleseed!

The week of September 24th- 28th we had Apple week in room 103. We learned about different kinds of apples, tasted and graphed those apples and also learned about Johnny Appleseed! We read multiple books about him, and wrote stories about him and completed character maps about him as well. So it was such a fin surprise when Johnny Appleseed himself came for a visit! The kids loved meeting him and had lots of great questions for him.

We also did lots of fun apple crafts like a torn paper apple and an apple air freshener. We finished the week off by enjoying some homemade applesauce and watching Disney's "Johnny Appleseed" movie. It was a fun and education-filled week!