{Firsties Let it Go}

Here is our tribute to Mrs. Roper at her surprise retirement "talent" show!

{Dino Digging}

We spent a week learning about dinosaurs, rocks, and fossils! It was dino-mite!!!

Marcus shared with the class his knowledge about geodes. He even made his own geodes! It was way cool!

We ended the week by being paleontologists and extracted "fossils" from chocolate chip cookies!

{Interest Groups}

The Firsties spent some time this week reading and researching with friends that share the same interests as them! We had a Sports, Wild Cats, Rainforest, and Pokemon Group! Check out their finished products:

The Sports Group

William, Ky're, Grady, and Pressly

The Wild Cats Group

Jordan and Benjamin

The Magic Tree House Group

Steven, Addison, Dallas, and Madison

The Pokemon Group invented their own characters and created a new version of the game!

Ansley, Marcus, and Wesley's commercial.

They want you to "Help Save the Rainforest!"

"Don't Let the Pigeon Go Around the World!"
Movie by Avery, Kimberly, Madyson, and John Casey

{Pets Rock!}

Man, did we have a fun week learning about pets and animal needs! We read so many fun books and made our own Animal Need Flip Book. We also learned about the features of nonfiction texts and made our own class book on pets. We incorporated persuasive writing this week by writing letters to our parents to convince them to buy us a pet. We modeled our writing after the book I Wanna Iguana. 

Our favorite part of the week was our Pet Rock Project!

The students completed Planning Pages that looked like this:

They made their pet rocks at home:

And then, they wrote persuasive pieces to convince me that their pet rock should win "Best in Show!":

Of course, they were so great I couldn't pick just one winner! All Pet Rocks received a special award!

{Firsties' Sound Orchestra}

We ended our Sound Unit with a bang! 

We made our own instruments and and performed the following piece:

Then we made and munched on Rice Krispies Treats!

Snap, Crackle, Pop!!!

{Firsties Love Mo Willems!}

My Extension Group has been conducting a Mo Willems Author Study and having loads of fun interacting with his characters! We spent a week reading several of his "Elephant and Piggie" series and performing Readers' Theaters of some of our favorite. The students each had a script where they highlighted and practiced their lines and they made their own props and costumes. Here are the finished products:

Sierra, Addison, and Ellie

Colter, James, and Tyler

LilyAnn and John Casey

Avery, K'mari, and Niti

Ansley, Briley, Ryann, and Pressly

Grady, Layla, and Presley

Justin and Peyton

Zak, Samantha, and Justin

{Dr. Seuss Week}

 "The more you read, 

the more things you know. 

The more things you know, 

the more places you'll go."

-Dr. Seuss

It was Dr. Seuss Week in First Grade this Week!

We had dress up days each day to help us celebrate...

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut Monday

Cat in the Hat Tuesday

Wacky Wednesday 

Check out this wacky hair!!!

Fox in Socks Thursday

Green Eggs and Ham Friday

And of course we had to eat GREEN eggs and ham!

{Ansley's Book-fommercial}

Ansley was the first Firstie to complete a Book-fomerrcial!

She read a book and has highlighted events in the feature below!

Ansley's commercial for

Winter of the Ice Wizard

by Mary Pope Osbourne:

{The Firsties Celebrate 100}

Can you believe we've already made it to the 100th Day of School?!?!

We had so much fun celebrating all things 100!

We explored measurement with 100 pennies, 100 centimeters of string, and 100 drops of water!

We collected data on activities we could do in 100 seconds!

Represented the number 100 in as many ways as we could!

Drew and wrote about ourselves as 100 year olds!

Put together puzzles with 100 pieces!

Enjoyed a snack of 100 Fruit Loops!

Read many books about the 100th Day of School!

(Are you tired yet?)

It was exhausting, but sooo fun!!!

Me and my 100 year old Grannies!

{Freezing in First}

The Firsties spent the last two weeks learning all about Arctic and Antarctic animals. We had a blast reading for lots of information (and I mean LOTS!) and watching video clips to catch a glimpse of the animals in action! We all this information together to make a book about penguins and polar bears!

 The Firsties also did some animal research on their own at home and presented some great Animal Projects!

Ryann: Beluga Whales

Arik: Reindeer

   

Ansley: Arctic Fox

Harry: Harp Seal

 

Grady: Polar Bear

Marcus: Narwhal

We did a really cool experiment to learn how blubber keeps cold weather animals stay warm:

On Friday we had "Tacky the Penguin Day". We dressed in our tackiest clothes and made penguin cookies!

Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to rotate it!!