Polar Express Day

Making snowmen and Santa in our pajamas...just another day in 1st Grade:)

We made our own playdoh!!!

Reader's Theatre

All of our friends in 1A created their own story about snowmen.  We read the book 'Snowmen at Work' then came up with our own "representation" of the story.  We practiced and read our script everyday.  We had SO much fun!!  Here are some pictures of our presentations...

volunteers in our classroom

Hello again!  We had a wonderful experience today to have some high school student volunteers teach us some meaningful lessons today!  They are part of "Junior Achievement"  They did a terrific job and so did the students.  They will be going home with their awards today:)

Because of our volunteers....we were not able to take our tests.  I'll give them a grade for the review instead. 

Thanks and hope you are all having a great day!!

WELCOME BACK!!

Just wanted to say welcome back to everyone!  Hope you all stayed safe and have all thawed out:)  It feels like it's been a long time since we've been at school.  This is going to be a very busy next couple weeks before winter break!!  We are going to have our Spelling Test and Math Test today to make up for last week...I will be sure to review with them beforehand because it's been some time:) 

Take care everyone!  I will continue to keep you posted with all of our fun Winter activities this week and next!! 

November Family Project

I will still take family recipes on Monday!  I received some great ones today!  Once I get them all, I'm going to make them into a big recipe book!!

Passport night!!

Hello all!

Next Thursday from 5:00 to 6:30 we will be having our Passport Night.  The whole school is taking part!  K-1 will be representing Italy.  All parents are welcome to bring a dish that represents our country of ITALY!  You can bring your dish with you at 5:00 and set it out in the Cafeteria...just look for our ITALY sign!  From 5-6 everyone can walk around the school and go into the different classrooms and see what they have on display for their countries.  Then at 6:00 everyone will join in the cafeteria and sample foods from all the different countries.  PTO meeting starts at 6:30. 

Hope to see you there!!

Cold Weather Days

The days are getting COLDER....

The cold weather is here folks!!  Please know that your child will still be going outside for recess even as the weather gets cold.  Please make sure they come prepared for the cold weather with all the necessities: warm coat, hat, gloves, etc. 

Thanks everyone!!

**Also, now would be a great time to remind your child to take responsibility of their belongings.  They often take off their coat on the playground if it warms up...which often leads to them forgetting it out there!  Once we are back in the classroom, I cannot leave to get it for them! Please remind them to either keep their coat on or remember to take it back to the classroom:)

More book suggestions...

Here are some more book suggestions from our Librarian, Ms. Birman.  There are some more great reads for children at all levels!

 

Picture Books and Easy Readers

- Any of the Biscuit the Dog series -- it's usually with the "I Can Read" series

- Pete the Cat (various titles)

- Henry and Mudge books (Ready to Read series for easy readers)

-Llama Llama picture book series

- If you give a mouse a cookie - Laura Numeroff (she has other titles that are cute) 

- Amelia Bedelia easy reader books

- The Snowy Day ( we have this book checked out, but this is a popular story and many students seem to enjoy it. :) ) 

Keats, Ezra Jack
AR Quiz No. 6092 EN Fiction
 IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
 AR Quiz Types: RP, RV, VP
 Rating: 
A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day.

- Planets! (we have this in the library, acutally we have a few titles that are from the "Time for Kids" science series for nonfiction titles. Most of them are easy readers with various reading levels) 
Editors of Time for Kids
AR Quiz No. 102080 EN Nonfiction
 IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 0.5

Chapter Books 

- A to Z Mysteries 

- Cam Jansen Mysteries

- Baby-sitters club 

- Boxcar children Mystery series

-Ready Freddy series

- Judy Moody series

- Animal Ark series 

- Goosebumps (a little scary, but recommend only if parents are okay with it) 

- Hank the Cowdog

- ** Magic Tree House** popular with boys

- ** Rainbow Magic** popular with girls

Book Suggestions for 1st Grade

Hello Parents and Happy Monday!!

I wanted to give you all a few suggestions as to what books your children may want to read.  Many of our children are interested in chapter books so I wanted to include some good series books!  I'm also going to talk with Ms. Birman, our librarian, to see if she may have any other suggestions. 

Junie B. Jones - popular for girls and boys

Magic Tree House - great adventure series

Goosebumps - only if the readers are okay with slight violence and scary/mystery themes (this series might be inappropriate for some)

Ready Freddy series - if girls like Junie B. Jones, then girls and boys will like Ready Freddy

Horrible Harry series - similar to Junie B. Jones

Judy Moody - for slightly advanced readers at a 3rd grade level

My Weird School Daze - humor and school genre

Wayside School - humor and school genre

Rainbow Magic - fantasy/adventure - only for advanced readers. The reading range varies from third to fourth grade level

50th day of CELEBRATION!! Such a FUN day!!

Our Future!!

Dress Up day tomorrow!!

Children are allowed to dress up tomorrow as what they want to be when they grow up!!  Do they want be a doctor?  A fireman?  A teacher?  I can't wait to see what they want their careers to be!!

Parents please note:  students are NOT allowed to dress in Halloween costumes.  Uniform pants and shoes must still be worn

Social Studies Projects

Wow!!  What an amazing job we did on our Social Studies Family Projects!  It was so interesting to hear all about what school was like long ago.  Everyone did a great job listening to each other's presentations.  School REALLY was different!  Here are some of our presenters....