First Grade Fun

A Flea On Santa's Tree

2011-12-19T22:54:00.001-06:00

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We Are Thankful

2011-11-21T20:10:00.001-06:00

We hope you enjoy our writing and will share with us what you are thankful for.

All About Frogs

2011-11-05T07:35:00.001-05:00

Halloween Happenings

2011-10-30T21:18:00.002-05:00

We had lots of fun in October learning about pumpkins and spiders. Check out some of our spider projects and take a look at our jack-o-lantern glyphs.

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Pumpkin Patch

2011-10-15T19:26:00.000-05:00

We had a great time at Dorney's Pumpkin Patch. Thanks to Mason, Logan, Kaylee, and Colby's moms for helping us.

First Day of First Grade Fun

2011-09-05T17:09:00.000-05:00

Rainbow Names

2011-09-05T09:11:00.001-05:00

We did some name activities to get to know one another.

This Hat

2011-09-04T21:43:00.000-05:00

The first week of school our reading series featured a story, The Hat. We also read another book, This Hat, on our SMART Board and then everyone made their own version of This Hat to keep and share with their families.

Hidden Names

2011-09-04T20:32:00.000-05:00

Each day we erase and uncover the letters to someone's name hidden on the SMART Board. The letters are all mixed up and we arrange them to spell the student's name. That student is our leader and star of the day the next day. It is always exciting to discover you are the star of the day!

Cat Kisses

2011-09-04T20:08:00.001-05:00

Practicing Short A

2011-09-04T06:42:00.000-05:00

Fun Day

2011-05-15T19:07:00.000-05:00

We had Fun Day at Washington School on Friday. Everyone had lots of FUN!

Painted Lady Butterflies

2011-05-05T20:38:00.000-05:00

Spring Music Program

2011-04-28T20:48:00.000-05:00

The boys and girls did a great job on the spring music program.

DQ AR Celebration

2011-04-10T21:25:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Shaida and her mom for providing treats for our celebration of reading 300 AR books.

Monicals AR Celebration

2011-04-10T07:37:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Sage's parents for bringing Monicals Pizza for our second AR Celebration. Great job first grade for reading and passing 200 AR books.

AR Celebrations-Ice Cream Sundaes

2011-04-08T17:20:00.001-05:00

Thanks Caleb and his mom for helping us celebrate passing our first 100 AR tests with ice cream sundaes.

Emily's Story The Chasing Dog

2011-04-08T14:07:00.001-05:00

My Favorite Meal

2011-04-08T09:07:00.005-05:00

In our skills group we read about Foods Around the World and then wrote about our favorite meal. We used Pixie 2 to illustrate and then record our voices. Warning, some of our meals may make your mouth water!

Martin Luther King Jr. by Sage

2011-03-14T11:32:00.001-05:00

100th Day of School

2011-02-13T07:29:00.001-06:00

We had lots of fun celebrating our 100th day of first grade.

Shaida's Snowman

2011-01-20T16:16:00.001-06:00

This video features Shaida sharing her snowman writing.

Snowmen group 3 MaKayla, Myles, Sage, Trenton, Will, Xavier, Gabriel

2011-01-20T16:13:00.001-06:00

This is our third snowman video featuring MaKayla, Myles, Sage, Trenton, Will, Xavier, and Gabriel.

Our Snowmen Charley-Lucas

2011-01-20T16:11:00.001-06:00

This is the second snowman video. It features Charley, Emily, Ethyn, Junior, and Lisa.

SnowmenGroup 1

2011-01-20T16:08:00.001-06:00

This is our first group of snowmen stories. It features Alora, Caleb, Ashton, and Cassandra.

In 2011

2011-01-06T21:07:00.002-06:00

The boys and girls wrote their New Years' resolutions for 2011.

Deck the Halls

2010-12-23T07:33:00.001-06:00

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We had lots of fun celebrating with lots of Christmas activities on Tuesday.

A Flea on Santa's Tree

2010-12-16T19:54:00.000-06:00

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Beary Merry Holiday

2010-12-03T07:15:00.000-06:00

Symmetrical Christmas Trees 1

2010-12-02T06:54:00.000-06:00

Gobbles Galore

2010-11-27T06:54:00.001-06:00

We had fun on at school this week doing lots of fun Thanksgiving activities at our Gobbles Galore Celebration. Thanks so much to our moms who came and helped us out.

My Mom by Lisa

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My Mom by Charley

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Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

2010-11-07T22:48:00.001-06:00

We made some cute turkeys to help decorate our room last week!

Thanksgiving by Sage

2010-11-05T10:57:00.003-05:00

Halloween Alphabet

2010-10-27T10:25:00.007-05:00

The class worked together to write a Halloween Alphabet book. Everyone drew a letter to illustrate and write a corresponding sentence to publish. Then they illustrated and recorded their project in Pixie. Enjoy our spooky alphabet!

Pumpkin Patch

2010-10-08T07:21:00.001-05:00

Our class had a great time at Dorney's Pumpkin Patch in Lawrenceville. Thanks to our wonderful parents and grandparents for helping on our trip.

Fall Nature Walk

2010-09-27T22:05:00.002-05:00

Our class went on a nature walk in Washington Park last week.

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Go Maroons!

2010-09-24T20:24:00.001-05:00

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Our class wanted to wish the Maroons good luck in their homecoming football game. We made a banner to hang up in the school and wish them luck.

Apples and the Ag Lady

2010-09-23T22:23:00.000-05:00

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Ants

2010-09-16T15:54:00.003-05:00

Our class learned all about ants last week. We brainstormed some ant facts we learned. Everyone drew an ant fact and then wrote and illustrated their fact using Pixie.

Building Words

2010-09-09T23:03:00.001-05:00

Sam and the Bag Activities

2010-09-04T20:17:00.000-05:00

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Sam and the Bag

2010-09-04T19:36:00.000-05:00

What's In My Bag

2010-09-04T07:14:00.006-05:00

This week we worked on short a words along with the story Sam and the Bag. Everyone wrote their own riddle to give clues for what they put in their bag.

This Hat

2010-08-29T22:24:00.001-05:00

We read the book This Hat on Friday. Then we made new illustrations using our faces for the book. The boys and girls took the books home to share with their families on Friday.

Hat Day

2010-08-29T20:41:00.002-05:00

To go along with our story from our reading series for the week Friday was Hat Day. Everyone looked cute in their hats and we had fun doing lots of hat activities.

2010-08-29T20:12:00.002-05:00

This week our story was about a hat. We did lots of hat activities. On Friday we made an All About Me Hat Glyph. Glyphs are pictures that tell a story so each person's project tells a story about them. Then we all wrote about what our hat glyph tells about us. The boys and girls did an amazing job!

Building Words

2010-08-25T22:12:00.006-05:00

This week have had fun using our Document Camera with letter tiles and the fridge magnets on our SMART Board. We have been racing to build words. We use the dual screen feature on our SMART Board. One person gets to build the word on the SMART Board with fridge magnets and the other builds the word with letter tiles under the document camera. It's been so much fun!!

Shiver Me Letters

2010-08-22T23:31:00.002-05:00

The boys and girls enjoyed the alphabet book, Shiver Me Letters. Then everyone wrote a page using their name just like the author of the book. We recorded the students telling what they had written in front of a green screen to put our first grade pirates on the beach.

Rainbow Name Clouds

2010-08-19T21:46:00.002-05:00

We had fun making rainbow clouds with our names on them. We hung them from our ceiling and now our room is really colorful.

Fantastic First Day

2010-08-18T19:58:00.003-05:00

We had a fantastic first day of first grade on August 17th. Everyone is off to a great beginning!

How To Train Your Dragon by Gage

2010-05-13T07:14:00.002-05:00

Gage wrote his story after going to the movie, How To Train Your Dragon.

Mrs Corn by Kyrsten

2010-05-13T06:42:00.003-05:00

Going to Grandma's House by Maddy

2010-05-13T06:38:00.001-05:00

Four Leaf Clover by Mykenna

2010-05-13T06:31:00.001-05:00

Cardinals Game by Thomas

2010-05-13T06:25:00.004-05:00

Thomas and his family recently went to St. Louis for a baseball game. He chose to write about the trip.

Space by Megan

2010-05-12T22:30:00.004-05:00

Megan worked hard reading a book on space and then writing some facts about each planet. Hope you enjoy her story.

Softball by Brenna

2010-05-12T22:05:00.001-05:00

NMS 8th Grade Fine Arts Class

2010-05-04T22:49:00.004-05:00

Miss Miller and her 8th grade fine arts class visited our first grade class today. They performed one of the songs from their Seuss musical and then read Seuss stories to the first graders. Thanks so much 8th graders we really enjoyed your visit!!

Allen and His Friend

2010-05-03T13:00:00.000-05:00

Hatching Eggs by Mykenna

2010-04-29T14:26:00.002-05:00

Super Spellers

2010-03-22T21:52:00.003-05:00

Thirteen students earned a + on their spelling test last week. Wow!! We have lots of super spellers!! Great job!!

We Are Lucky

2010-03-17T23:12:00.002-05:00

We are lucky for lots of reasons. Here are just a few.

President Activities

2010-02-21T23:07:00.005-06:00

During Presidents' Day week we learned lots about some of our presidents. On Friday we did several centers pertaining to Presidents' Day. We could make a booklet about the president's job, do a Venn Diagram on the computer on Lincoln and Washington, make an Abraham Lincoln project to go with a writing activity we did, or make a patriotic project with Abraham and Lincoln facts.

Enzymes and Digestion

2010-02-21T22:44:00.004-06:00

Mrs. Wiseman visited our class last week to teach us about how enzymes in our body help digest our food. We learned lots about digestion from Mrs. Wiseman.

Guest Reader

2010-02-15T18:53:00.003-06:00

Brenna's Aunt Sarah recently visited our class as a guest reader. She is now in South Korea for a year serving with the Air Force. She used a globe to show us where she would be living and read us a great story. Our class hopes to be pen pals with her while she is in South Korea. Mrs. Corn was especially glad to have Sarah visit also as she was one of her students when she was in first grade. Thanks for being our guest reader, Sarah!

Valentine Party

2010-02-12T21:13:00.005-06:00

This afternoon we had a great time exchanging valentines at our party. We enjoyed way too many yummy snacks and played a fun game. Thanks to our wonderful families who sent treats for our party. We really appreciated all of them!!! Take a peak at our fun.

Valentine Centers

2010-02-12T20:50:00.004-06:00

We had lots of fun this morning doing centers based around Valentine's Day. We used Pixie 2 on the computers to write about three things we love and one thing we don't love. Then we added a sticker from Pixie for each thing we wrote about. We drew valentine pictures with crayons and did painted red watercolor over them to make a crayon resist. Graphing valentine heart candy was really fun especially when we got to eat the candy when we finished. Using red stamp pads and our thumbs we made "thumbody" loves you hearts. Making valentine cards for special people was fun. In math we have been talking about line segments and practicing using rulers so we made hearts with line segments on them. Then we colored each area surrounded by the line segments a different color. The boys and girls worked very well and enjoyed all the activities.

Valentine Projects

2010-02-11T22:40:00.004-06:00

We were busy today with Valentine activities. Everyone made a valentine holder for our valentines. Then we made Valentine People to hang in our room. The boys and girls are really excited to exchange valentines tomorrow.

100th Day of First Grade

2010-02-03T22:48:00.003-06:00

We celebrated our 100th Day of First Grade on February 2, 2010. We had lots of fun doing activities based around the number 100.

Penguins

2010-01-20T22:56:00.003-06:00

Our class has been talking about penguins this week. We made penguin folders to hold some of our activities we plan to do.

Snowmen

2010-01-11T21:49:00.003-06:00

We made snowmen to add to our hall bulletin board. Everyone started with three squares and then used their imaginations and the scrap box to create their own snowmen.

Reindeer Books

2009-12-15T22:49:00.004-06:00

Today we learned lots of facts about reindeer. We did some activities on the SMART Board and watched a short Discovery video before we made reindeer books. Enjoy some pictures of our projects.

Christmas Program

2009-12-03T22:28:00.003-06:00

We saw some adorable first grade bears in our Christmas program this evening. They did a fantastic job!!!

Gobbles Galore

2009-11-29T23:00:00.003-06:00

First grade had lots of fun with Gobbles Galore. Thanks to so many wonderful parents for helping us out!!

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

2009-11-10T06:48:00.004-06:00

Our room is gobbling with Thanksgiving fun! Thanks to Thomas' mom for helping us paint our hands last week to make the tail feathers for our turkeys. Today we finished our projects.

Roll the Dice

2009-11-02T22:00:00.003-06:00

We worked very hard on math and phonics assessments today. Then we had some fun in math playing a game. We rolled two dice on the SMART Board and then added the numbers together beginning with the largest number and counting on. We made a graph of the equations according to the answers to see which one would reach the top first. It was lots of fun to practice math today!!

Our Jack-O-Lantern

2009-10-26T23:32:00.007-05:00

Thanks so much to Megan's dad for coming to school on Friday and carving a jack-o-lantern with the class. The class really had a great time!! We counted the seeds and found there were 500. We have been reading some spooky Halloween books by the light of the jack-o-lantern. Thanks Mr. Gallagher!!

Jack-o-lanterns and Scaring Pepper

2009-10-18T22:47:00.006-05:00

Mrs. Wiseman came on Friday to do a fun experiment with the class. We started with a bowl of water and added some pepper. The class observed that the pepper spread all over the surface of the water. Then they dipped a toothpick in dishwashing liquid and touched it to the water. The pepper was "scared" and all rushed to the sides of the bowl. Lots of oohs and aahs were heard!! Mrs. Wiseman explained that it was because of surface tension.

In the afternoon we had fun making some jack-o-lanterns from paper strips. Some were funny and some were pretty scary!!

Our Fall Window

2009-10-14T21:38:00.003-05:00

Thanks to Rheana Powell our classroom window is so cute!! She painted a fall picture of Winnie the Pooh on our window. Thanks Mrs. Powell!!

OREO Day

2009-10-10T07:26:00.004-05:00

Oreo Day was lots of fun! We stacked Oreos for the OREO Projecet, made Oreo sculptures, at Oreos. Fun, fun, fun!

2009-10-09T22:18:00.002-05:00

We had a short but very busy day today. We painted jack-o-lanterns for our hall bulletin board. Then we painted a strip of white paper with some new glitter watercolor paints. The boys and girls loved seeing the paint sparkle on their paper. We'll cut leaf shapes out of our glitter painting and add them to our door with the kids that look a whole bunch like our first graders! We talked about Christopher Columbus in our Scholastic News today and were visited by Mr. Riggs who talked to us about saying no to drugs.

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O.R.E.O. Day

2009-10-08T22:55:00.004-05:00

We had lots of fun stacking Oreos today. Thanks so much to Mrs. Austin, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Buchen, Mrs. Mendenhall, and Ms. Jane Priest for helping us stack Oreos today. Thanks also to all of the families who sent Oreos to make the project possible. The highest stack was made by Armando with 20 Oreos. Alexis Mendenhall came in second with 19. and Lexi and Thomas tied for third with 18 each.

Fire Safety

2009-10-05T22:06:00.002-05:00

Today we were visited by two of our local firemen. They talked to us about fire safety and brought two of their fire trucks to show us how they use them to help fight fires. They also showed us some of the equipment they use to help them fight fires. We also discussed fire safety in class and made a fire safety booklet. Then everyone wrote some fire safety rules that they remembered. We are working on making a fire dog to display our writing with. Ask your child how they can be safe if there is a fire.

Johnny Appleseed

2009-09-28T22:39:00.004-05:00

In September we talked about Johnny Appleseed. We read some books about his life and watched a short video. Then we brainstormed some facts we had learned. In writing everyone wrote about some of the things they had learned about Johnny. We then made Johnny Appleseeds and put the writing on our art project. They look really nice in our hallway at school. Next time you are at school take a look and read our Johnny Appleseed facts.

Buster the Bus

2009-09-22T20:49:00.003-05:00

Buster the Bus visited school today to teach us about bus safety. He was helped by some of our bus drivers. Thanks to Buster and the bus drivers for helping us learn to be safe!

Cat Puppets

2009-09-16T21:39:00.003-05:00

We made cat puppets to use to read the poem Sandpaper Kisses in our reading book. We had lots of fun making them and having them recite the poem with.

Building Sentences

2009-09-15T22:12:00.005-05:00

When we read the story Sam and the Bag, the class worked in groups to take words from a bag and build a sentence with them They were really fast building their sentences and did a great job reading them!

The Little Red House

2009-09-14T22:42:00.004-05:00

We have been talking about apples at school. Last week we heard a story about the Little Red House. We made our own books so we could go home and share the story with our families. Watch and see what the Little Red House is.

Sandpaper Kisses

2009-09-07T20:00:00.002-05:00

Last week we read the poem Sandpaper Kisses in our reading book. The boys and girls each made their own cat bag puppet and we recorded them reciting the poem with their puppets.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Stark

2009-09-02T22:27:00.006-05:00

Today was Mr. Stark's birthday. The class made a banner with a birthday wish and invited him to our classroom for a chorus of Happy Birthday. Hope you had a happy birthday, Mr. Stark!

To go along with our reading story this week, Sam and the bag the boys and girls worked in groups today to build sentences from words in a bag. They did a great job!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

2009-08-31T20:54:00.006-05:00

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom the first week of school and did a couple of projects to go along with it. On the first we tore construction paper to make the trunk of a tree and added the letters to our names climbing the finished tree. On the other we painted trees and added ourselves climbing the tree to find something that starts like each of our names. What would you climb the tree to find that begins like your name?

I Am Special

2009-08-30T22:18:00.006-05:00

Last week we read the poem:

I am special

I am me

No one in the world

Is just like me

Then we made people to look like ourselves and placed them around an earth on our bulletin board.

My Hat

2009-08-30T19:56:00.003-05:00

Last week we read The Hat in reading. On Friday we read My Hat and then everyone made their own creation of the book.

Beginning Week Two

2009-08-24T22:33:00.002-05:00

We started our second week of school today. The boys and girls predicted what our reading story will be about by erasing the SMART Board a little at a time to reveal a hidden picture. We worked on writing numbers in math and discussed the long o sound in phonics. This afternoon we worked on the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees we painted with Mrs. Beard last week. Everyone made themselves climbing the tree to see something that begins like their name. Most of us will finish them tomorrow.

First Grade is Fun

2009-08-22T18:08:00.003-05:00

I wondered how the kids felt about our first week of school and this is the response I got.

Finishing the First Week

2009-08-22T16:46:00.004-05:00

We finished our first week yesterday. Fridays are fun because we don't do a formal phonics or math lesson and have time to practice some of the new things we have learned or do something a little different. This week we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom together on Friday and then made trees with our names. Mrs. Beard helped us paint trees we will use for another project next week. We also read Chrysanthemum on our SMART Board and did a fun activity with our names.

Dilly Bars, Poems, and Rainbow Clouds

2009-08-20T22:37:00.003-05:00

We had lots of fun at school today. We sang happy birthday to Megan during calendar. Today is her sixth birthday! Happy Birthday Megan!! This morning we rewrote a poem, New, that we read yesterday. Everyone chose four new things they have for school to include in their poem. It is our first poem in our Poetry Pages folder. We also finished our rainbow name clouds. They look really nice hanging in our room. This afternoon Megan treated the class to dilly bars. They were yummy!!

First Grade Fun

A Flea On Santa's Tree

We Are Thankful

All About Frogs

Halloween Happenings

Pumpkin Patch

First Day of First Grade Fun

Rainbow Names

This Hat

Hidden Names

Cat Kisses

Practicing Short A

Fun Day

Painted Lady Butterflies

Spring Music Program

DQ AR Celebration

Monicals AR Celebration

AR Celebrations-Ice Cream Sundaes

Emily's Story The Chasing Dog

My Favorite Meal

Martin Luther King Jr. by Sage

100th Day of School

Shaida's Snowman

Snowmen group 3 MaKayla, Myles, Sage, Trenton, Will, Xavier, Gabriel

Our Snowmen Charley-Lucas

SnowmenGroup 1

In 2011

Deck the Halls

A Flea on Santa's Tree

Beary Merry Holiday

Symmetrical Christmas Trees 1

Gobbles Galore

My Mom by Lisa

My Mom by Charley

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

Thanksgiving by Sage

Halloween Alphabet

Pumpkin Patch

Fall Nature Walk

Go Maroons!﻿

Apples and the Ag Lady

Ants

Building Words

Sam and the Bag Activities

Sam and the Bag

What's In My Bag

This Hat

Hat Day

Building Words

Shiver Me Letters

Rainbow Name Clouds

Fantastic First Day

How To Train Your Dragon by Gage

Mrs Corn by Kyrsten

Going to Grandma's House by Maddy

Four Leaf Clover by Mykenna

Cardinals Game by Thomas

Space by Megan

Softball by Brenna

NMS 8th Grade Fine Arts Class

Allen and His Friend

Hatching Eggs by Mykenna

Super Spellers

We Are Lucky

President Activities

Enzymes and Digestion

Guest Reader

Valentine Party

Valentine Centers

Valentine Projects

100th Day of First Grade

Penguins

Snowmen

Reindeer Books

Christmas Program

Gobbles Galore

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

Roll the Dice

Our Jack-O-Lantern

Jack-o-lanterns and Scaring Pepper

Go Maroons!