Field Trip! Great Lakes Science Center

Yesterday we had an AMAZING day at the Great Lakes Science Center!

We had so much hands-on fun with science all day! Thank you so much to all the chaperones that came and created so many great memories!

Check out some of the pictures from our trip...

St. Patrick's Day Shenanigans

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day and we had such a fun day!!

We thought there was a leprechaun in the building because we kept seeing green flashes... but then we KNEW he was here because he flipped everything in the office!

And he left us a note with a mystery to solve!

We had to figure out what the powder he left behind was so we could earn his pot of gold! Good thing we just studied what happens when different materials are mixed with water and vinegar the day before in science! After a quick experiment we discovered that the mystery powder was BAKING SODA!!

The leprechaun must have spilled it when he was baking us these yummy chocolate chip cookies :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Today we celebrated the birthday of one of our favorite authors... Dr. Seuss!

We practiced 3 addend addition on our Cat in the Hat masks...

We made some delicious cat hats our of strawberries, bananas, and mini-pancakes! Yum!

We also got special Dr. Seuss themed bookmarks at the end of the day! We can't wait to use them while we read our favorite books!

Today was also our friend Ahmad's last day at Grant School. We will miss you, Ahmad! Good luck at your new school!!

Hibernation Celebration

Due to our snow day on Monday, we celebrated Groundhog Day yesterday!  It was so much fun!!

We all wore our PJs so we could wake up with Phil! Then we made groundhog hats and transformed into a class of little groundhogs!

We used our math skills to make groundhog heads...

 

We read the book 10 Grouchy Groundhogs, and then acted it out...

After we watched the video of Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow and predicting 6 more weeks of winter (booo!!!), we made our own Phil's seeing their shadows, too...

We ended our hibernation celebration day with a groundhog snack and some hot cocoa!!

Eric Carle Inspirations

We have been so inspired by Eric Carle's beautiful illustrations and awesome writing the past two weeks!

We created our own characters that would be great inside an Eric Carle book using his technique of tissue paper collages...

We made MATHerpillars, which were obviously inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar...

And of course, they had to turn into beautiful butterflies!!

Learning from Eric Carle has been so much fun! We can't wait to see who our next author will be!



Today was also our ice cream sundae party for all the students that completed their second quarter reading log!!!!  We all got to make our own ice cream sundae's with LOTS of toppings!!  YUM! YUM!

Remember to fill out your reading logs every night so you can join us for our third quarter party!!

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!!