The Grinch Didn't Stop Our Winter Celebrations!

We had the BEST week in 1st grade!

We have been celebrating Grinch week with lots of Grinchy activities!

We practiced  measuring and comparing the length of objects in math.

We made the Grinch's heart grow so much with acts of kindness in our classroom!  We can barely see the Grinch under there with all those hearts!

On Friday, we opened gifts while watching How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Everyone got their very own book!!!

Later that day, our parents and family members came in to hear us read our stories at our writing celebration!  We read our teaching books to them.  THANK YOU for supporting our writing!

We were so proud of our books!

Then, we really celebrated at our Winter Party!!

It was so much fun!!  We had delicious snacks and played such a fun game!!

Thank you to everyone who organized the party and who came to party with us!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Pilgrims and Turkeys!

Last week was another super fun week in first grade!

On Monday, our guest from the Oldest Stone House was back! This time she brought a trunk full of toys and games that kids played with long ago.  She even let us play with them!  It was so awesome to see how some of their toys were similar to toys today and how some were so different!

On Tuesday, Mrs. Chanter helped us create a new movie using the green screen!  In this movie we are teaching all we know about how life long ago was different from life today.  

Later that day, the general store was finally open and we were able to spend the wampum we had been earning for our good behavior over the last couple weeks!  We each made up and wrote our own recipes for a very special turkey snack, and then we bought supplies to make our snacks from the general store!  Our snacks were all unique and delicious! We used our leftover wampum to make necklaces that we could wear home!

We had so much fun learning about life long ago and celebrating Thanksgiving!

What A Wonderful World!

We are spreading joy with our fluency song this week!

Honoring Veterans

Today we learned all about veterans and why we celebrate Veteran's Day.

We discovered that many of us have family members and friends that have served or are currently serving in the military!

Mrs. Katona brought in some artifacts from her husband who is a Marine to share with our class. She even let us try them on!

We also created a class book thanking veterans for all they do!  We presented this to our own Grant veteran, Mr. Gregory!

Mrs. Revy helped us to make 2 American flags with our handprints!  We will hang one up at school and will give one to Mr. Katona to hang up at home!

We made a thank you video to our veterans that we will be posting soon!  Check back later this week!