Muffler Science

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Mrs. Wiseman, our science lady, shared a sound experiment with our class.

Our 100th Day of School

We had lots of fun on our 100th day of first grade on January 30, 2013.

100 Animals At the Zoo

AR Celebrations-Ice Cream Sundaes

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

Martin Luther King Jr. by Sage

Shaida's Snowman

This video features Shaida sharing her snowman writing.

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

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

Our Snowmen Charley-Lucas

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

SnowmenGroup 1

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

In 2011

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

Guest Reader

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!

100th Day of First Grade

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

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

Snowmen

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.

All About Penguins

The class talked about five different species of penguins on Friday and completed a project illustrating each type and adding a fact for each.

Snow Days

We came back to school on Friday of this week after a major snowstorm and three snow days. The boys and girls brainstormed all of the things they did during their snow days. We sorted our ideas by names of things (nouns) and words that told what we did (verbs). The students used this word bank on the SMART Board to write about their snow day activities. Everyone also created a snow picture to display with their writing. We tore white construction paper to make the snow covering the ground and then drew details with our crayons. Finally, they used white paint to show how the snow covered everything. Look for their writing on our website next week.

Penguin Parade

We are studying penguin this month. We have been talking about where penguins live, the different species, and other general facts. We wanted to see how tall penguins are and see that they are not all the same size so we traced life size penguins and worked on committees to complete them. We found that the smallest penguins are the little blue and the largest are the emperor penguins. Thanks so Katy's mom for helping us measure and trace the penguins and our high school friends from Mrs. Oxford's class for helping us write our penguin facts. Take a stroll down our hall to see our penguin parade.

Reading Buddies

The students from one of Mrs. Oxford's classes from the high school visited our class on Friday. Our first graders were so excited to meet them and begin to get to know them. They will be coming every Friday morning for the rest of this semester to read or practice language arts skills with our class. This week they read the story, Tomas Rivera, from our reading series with the kids. Then they each helped their first grade buddies complete a vocabulary worksheet. Finally, the first graders used books about penguins in our classroom or facts they had learned about penguins to write a sentence to add to our penguin display we are working on. The first graders really enjoyed the visit and are certainly looking forward to seeing their reading buddies next week.

Winter

The boys and girls were given the letters e,i,n,t,w,r today. We built several words with those letters both on the SMART Board and with their individual letters. Then they were challenged to use all of the letters to make one word. It didn't take them long to build the word winter with all of the letters. Then they glued the letters on paper and made winter pictures. During writing we wrote about lots of things we like to do in winter. Look for those stories later this week.

Counting Coins on Our SMART Board

We have been practicing buying things using dimes and pennies. We picked items on our SMART Board that we would like to purchase and then counted the correct amount of money to purchase the item on our board. It would be great practice for the boys and girls to practice counting with dimes and pennies at home.