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!

Living Long Ago

Today, we had a special visitor from the Lakewood Historical Society come into our classroom to let us experience first hand how kids lived long ago!  It was incredible!

We made our own blueberry ink and wrote with quills, just like people did before pens!

We wrote with slates and used wool as erasers! This was nothing like our dry erase boards!

We even tried out some of the punishments that teachers would use on kids at school! We are really glad teachers don't still use these today!!

Take a look at this slideshow of all our pictures from our fun morning!

November Fun!

We had such a busy week in 1st grade!

Monday started with our field trip to the Oldest Stone House. You can read all about our awesome field trip here.

We played a bunch of math games to review all we know about place value.  Ask us about it, we are experts!

One of the STAR block groups finished their projects all about the Titanic and presented their information to one another.

On Thursday we supported our Browns by wearing orange and brown... which we know contributed to their big win!!

Friday was a big day! We had a PIZZA PARTY for all the 1st graders that had 100% completion of their reading log for the 1st quarter.  WE LOVE READING! And we love pizza!

We also made these adorable place value turkeys! Gobble, gobble!

And celebrated Daniel's birthday!

We can't wait to see what next week will bring!  

Field Trip: Oldest Stone House

Today, we kicked off our new social studies unit with a visit to the Oldest Stone House in Lakewood Park!

We learned so many interesting things about the way people lived long ago. We even pretended to be students in a one room school house!

If you'd like more information about the Oldest Stone House, you can look at there website here.

Check out pictures of our day below:

Halloween Week Fun!

This past week was so much fun!

We were celebrating Fall and Halloween throughout the week!

We made our very own Humbug Witches...

Celebrated Kailey's birthday...

Wrote directions for how to make a surprise Halloween craft, and then had a friend follow our directions to actually make the craft! 

Mrs. Hayes' star block group finished their Spider reports and enjoyed the presentations with spider snacks...

The 4th and 5th graders put on an AMAZING musical performance for us on Friday morning...

And the best part of the whole week was our Fall party Friday afternoon!

Thank you to all the parents that helped make it possible! We had so much fun!

Take a look back at our week in pictures!