Cooking as a Class

Yum, Yum!!!  My first graders earned a special incentive for good behavior.  We cooked as a class today and made spooky Frankenstein dirt cups.  Everyone got to help stir the slime (green vanilla pudding) and crush the dirt (oreos).  Each student used a sharpie marker to draw a Frankenstein face on their cup.  This delicious Halloween treat was a hit!  Way to go kiddos!  Keep up the good work!

 

 

Happy Halloween!!!!!

We have been practicing our BLACK CAT poem all week!  Enjoy this fun rhyming Halloween poem!

A BIG thank you to all of the parents that helped plan or sent snacks and drinks for our Halloween party this afternoon.  The kids had a wonderful time and brought home big bags full of goodies.  Let the "sugar high" begin.  I hope everyone has a great time trick-or-treating with their families this weekend.  Here are a few pictures from our fun afternoon.

King of ING!!!!

We are all royalty in first grade today!  This week we have been adding "ING" to action words.  The "King of ING" helped us learn that when you add ING to a base word it tells us that the action is on going.  Students made ING crowns today.

Red Ribbon Week!!!!

First Grade is TEAMing up against drugs!!!!  Each student wore their favorite team shirt today!

You have the "WRITE" to say NO to drugs!!!

Oh no.... Who Smashed My Pumpkin???

My students worked very hard drawing and coloring their jack-o-lanterns.  To their surprise, I asked them to crumple them up and rip them into pieces.  Oh boy.... some students were not happy.  We discussed how we might feel if someone smashed the real pumpkins that we worked so hard to carve. To go along with our activity, students got creative and brainstormed lots of ideas on how a pumpkin could be smashed.  Each student wrote about three things that happened to their poor pumpkin.  It was a fun little twist on this Halloween pumpkin activity.
  

                

Check out these SMARTIES!

We have been working really hard learning our doubles in math the past few weeks. These students passed their doubles quiz and are officially members of the First Grade Doubles Club!  Way to go!

Call the Doctor!!!!

These poor words were cut apart and mended back together with an apostrophe bandaid.  Don't worry, we have very experienced first grade doctors that were able to successfully create contractions!

Echolocation Rap

Check out this fun song we have been singing to help us learn how bats use echolocation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mwoOyOleGc

Our Grand Total Is...........

With a grand total of $59.18 we will be able to sponsor/adopt two orphaned bats from www.batworld.org.  Thank you to all the families that contributed to this great cause.  Meet Binky and Bootsanna!

Meet Eddie and Ed

Eddie and Ed are our friends from the past!  They help remind us that if "ed" comes at the end of a word it means that it already happened.  Students illustrated and colored these cute little characters this week and wrote past tense sentences with action verbs ending in "ed".