Series Writing

This quarter in writing, we have been very busy writing our own series books! All of our books have the same main characters, and they go through different adventures in each story.

We decorated cereal boxes to store our series books in, and then we invited Ms. Keane's kindergarten class to come listen to our stories and check out how hard we have been working in first grade!

Henry and Mudge

In first grade lately we have been writing realistic fiction stories. We've developed creative characters, and are learning how to use those characters in more than book, and turn our writing into a series!

To help us learn about series books, we have been reading a lot of Henry and Mudge books, by Cynthia Rylant! We love Henry and Mudge books because they make us laugh with the silly things the characters do.

To show our appreciate and love of these characters, we created our own Mudge puppets! We even included a lot of different describing words that we think fit Mudge. We think Mudge is cute, silly, huge, adorable, happy, and slobbery!

Check out our adorable craft! We would really like to thank Mrs. Kerney for helping us construct our Mudge puppets!

Science in Motion!

Recently, we have been learning about the way objects move! We learned that objects can only move when a push or pull is applied to it. We've also learned that objects can move along the path they travel; they can move in a circular motion, back and forth, straight, or in a zigzag.

We spent some time working in science stations, experimenting with the ways that objects move. Check out what we've done!

 

When we blew on the pinwheel, it moved in a circular motion!

 

When we pushed the ball on the Lego track, it moved along the zigzag path!

 

When we pushed the little sheep toy, it swung back and forth!

 

And when we pushed the car down the ramp, it went straight on the carpet!

We enjoyed recording our observations and drawing pictures of the experiments we did!

Stone Soup

After reading and talking about the story, "Stone Soup" we decided to make our own soup as a class!

We learned that the moral of the story is that great things can be achieved when people come together and share. Because we had so many generous vegetable donations, each child was able to contribute his or her own ingredient to our soup!

 In addition to making the soup, we also created amazing recipe books that include every ingredient we added to our pot. We let the soup cook all day, and after patiently waiting, we finally enjoyed it in the afternoon! Here are some photos from our activities today!

Writing Celebration!

Over the past week, we have been working really hard writing book reviews of our favorite stories. Today, to show off our hard work, we invited parents to come in and listen to the book reviews we wrote. Thanks so much to everyone who came to listen to our writing today. We loved having you!

Visiting author Sandra Philipson

We would like to say thank you to our visiting author, Sandra Philipson, for coming to Grant School yesterday! Mrs. Philipson even brought her two dogs Tak and Penny, who appear in many of her books! She then taught us how to illustrate a dog and we got to practice on our own! 

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!