Field Day 2015

Yesterday we had our field day and it was so much fun!!

First we made visors, then we spent the afternoon having a blast at the different stations!

Check out some of our pictures:

Gearing Up for Spring Break

The week before spring break was BUSY in first grade!!

We started our geometry unit in math and had so much fun creating composite shapes.

Tuesday we had a reading log party for all the 1st graders that completed their reading log for the 3rd quarter. We had 22 students participate!! They all got to decorate their own cupcakes. Yum!

Wednesday we invited our families in to hear our open mic poetry reading. We worked so hard on our poems and we had so much fun sharing them!

Thursday we had our Lion King fluency party! We've been improving our fluency all year by reading books, poems, and singing songs. We had a party to celebrate our fluency successes; complete with lyrics books, snacks, and of course The Lion King movie!

Check out some pictures from our jam-packed week!

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!!