Ants

We read the story Ants in our reading book and spent the week learning lots of things about ants.

We read the book This Hat to go with our reading theme this week. We made ourselves the stars of our own This Hat books.

Ants

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.

Sam and the Bag Activities



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What's In My Bag

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.

Cat Puppets

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

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!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Stark

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!

My Hat

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

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.

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.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

This week's story was All About Corn. We read how corn goes from the field, to the factory, the store, and then home. Like the people in the story we popped some popcorn. The class enjoyed watching it pop and loved eating it!

Nature Walk

Last week's reading story was Todd's Box. Just like Todd we went on a walk in the park. We collected things to make a nature collage. You can read our writing about the project and see a video of our experience on our website.

http://www.robinsonschools.com/wes/teachers/1/corn/nature_collage_07.htm

All About Ants

Earlier this month our class learned lots of things about ants. We had a story in our reading book about ants and read lots of ant books. At the end of the week we worked on a project to help us remember what we had learned. The class made ants with their fingerprints for the cover. Inside each one built the ant life cycle, labeled the body parts of an ant, and made a booklet of facts they had learned about ants. You can see another video we made of our class reporting facts they learned about ants on our class website:

http://www.robinsonschools.com/wes/teachers/1/corn/august_september_2008.htm

Sentences In a Bag

This week we read the story Sam and the Bag. It was about a curious cat that wanted to climb into a bag with his cat friends. The boys and girls worked with a partner or two to unscramble some sentences in a bag. They worked great together and used clues such as looking for a capital letter to begin a sentence, a punctuation at the end, and what made sense. I think they are becoming super readers!

Computer Class

The boys and girls had a great time experimenting with Tux Paint in computer today. It is a free download from the following site if you would like to use it at home also:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/
Casey was our Star of the Day today. In reading we practiced short a words today by highlighting them in sentences on the SMART Board and then choosing a picture that went with each sentence. We read a silly story about a mixup with a ham and a hat together. Ask your child to tell you about it. In math we graphed how we come to school and discovered that most of our students ride the bus each morning.