Dr. Seuss!

Since Dr. Seuss's birthday is this Sunday, his books and characters have been the main theme in our classroom this week. Check out out all of the amazing Dr. Seuss activities we have been working on!

First, we took photos in a Cat in the Hat photo-booth, and said what we would do if we were the Cat in the Hat!











Then, we read aloud the Dr. Seuss books we have been practicing in reading groups all week!








We had so much fun using our handprint to make a Horton Hears a Who craft!

Finally, our day ended with eating Dr. Seuss cupcakes while wearing our Cat in the Hat hats!

Flat Stanley

We have recently finished up an exciting unit in our STAR Block group. We read Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown, and the students got to make their own Flat Stanley and take pictures with him in various locations. We put the pictures into a book and then the students shared them with the rest of the group. Check out our Flat Stanley pictures and videos of our presentations here!

Olympic Research

A few of our students did some research on an Olympic athlete of their choice last week.  Here are their final projects:




We will be so sad when these Olympics come to an end!

Valentine's Day

We had SO much fun spreading the love in 1st grade for Valentine's Day.

Yesterday, we decorated our Valentine's Day boxes with pink paper and all different kinds of heart stickers and decorations!

Today, our day concluded with a fun Valentine's Day party with lots of yummy treats and crafty activities!

1st Grade Reading Olympics

We have just LOVED learning about and watching the winter Olympics this year!

After we learned about the events in the winter Olympics, we each chose our favorite sport and wrote an opinion piece telling why it was the best!

We invited the other first grade classes over and read our writing to them to try and convince them to agree with us!

We were even inspired to have our own Reading Olympics!  We tracked how many minutes we read at home over the course of 2 weeks.  After our 2 weeks were up, we totaled our time to try to earn a medal!

Gold medalists read more than 200 minutes.

Silver medalists read 150-199 minutes.

Bronze medalists read 149 minutes or less.

We had 17 students in our class earn a medal! WOW!

We even had a medal ceremony with Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Cintron's class!