Map Skills

Today we practice our map skills! We went on a little scavenger hunt using a map of our K playground. They used their map to get to all five clues and if they figured out what the clue's were they recieved a little treat. My wonderful teammate made this last year and let me tell you the kids LOVED it. Here are a few pictures of them on their hunt.

Look what we have been up to!

First, I want to apologize for taking so long to write this post. Secondly, I want to tell you all how much I am enjoying all of your wonderful children. This year is going very well. Here is a few pics to show you what we have been up to.

Odd and Even Town 

This project was so much fun. Our math program introduced odd and even numbers last week. Perfect opportunity for this oh so fun project! The students loved it and it really helped some of the students with the concept. 

Senses Man is such a cool way to introduce the five senses.  It hangs on our classroom door to remember to use our five senses when investigating.  We also did "What is a Scientist". I found this great idea on
 Pinterest (my new obsession). =)                                             

How to Blow A Bubble, I found this cute idea on another blog. I wish I could remember which one to give credit. This took us a little while to get through all of our drafts. But look how fun this project is. We started out by chewing on some bubble gum and then went through the writing process. Oh my job is so much fun! As you can see I have NO wall space outside my door way. I do the best I can to display work. The work itself makes it look cute enough. =)

I cannot forget the oh so fun apple day. I LOVE apple day! We painted some festive wreaths, using apples as our paintbrushes. We made apple mouths and candy apples, YUM! We did some stain glass apples which always look fabulous on the windows (Thanks you for the great idea Mrs. Bainbridge). Lastly, we investigated apples, weighting on a balance scale using bear manipulative's, measuring them, discovering if they sink or float, and lots more.

And on a personal note, my baby boy had his sixth month appointment yesterday. Growing so fast, he measured at 22 inches and weighed in at 18 lbs and 10 ounces (both in the 60 percentile).

Well I have to go for now. Hopefully (cross your fingers), it will not take me this long next time to post pictures. 

Read to someone and Work on Writing are going VERY well. We will be starting guided reading groups this Monday! I am very excited to get into more of a routine.

See the bear in the desk on the bottom left? This is our bathroom bear. Instead of interupting me during Daily 5, the students put this on their desk and go. It works out great and it limits just 1 to be out of the room! I love it!

Citizen"SHIP"

One of our VA SOL's is citizenship, so this week we were learning how to be good citizens! My wonderful teammate came up with this great idea. We had a ship in our room and you had to be invited in to the ship. Well the only way you are invited in to the ship is if you have good citizenship. Love this idea, and so did the kids. They had so much fun and as you can see by Friday everyone was invited in to the ship. Our class is AWESOME and  all of them were being great citizens all week!

First Grade Fun--Off to a GREAT start!!!

Last week was our third week of school and we are off to a fabulous start. I am very excited with the progress we have made so far. Read to Self is going great. Our stamina building is slowly going up. We are now at 15 minutes!!! The kids are super excited and so am I. They even stayed on task when I was taking pictures.  Take a look at how great they are doing!

In math we are also learning how or math workshop BUILD. We have learned "I" which is independent reading. We practice that when we read to self. We have practiced, "U" which is using manipulative's, several times. We have really focused on not playing with the manipulative's and using them to learn. Last week we practiced the "B" which stands for buddy games. To supplement to our break-aparts of 5 in math. We played the game called, "Shake 5 and Spill". The kids loved it. They shook their cups and gently dumped the counters to see how many reds and how many yellows were left.

Thank you to oceansoffirstgradefun.blogspot.com for the wonderful game!

Our Friday experiment also went well. We glued, discussed, and completed the following sheet in our scientific journals.

 Thank you to whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com for the wonderful experiment form.

They LOVED this experiment. Take a look below to see how engaged they were in this activity!

I hope everyone had a wonderful three day weekend!! My favorite part was college football! So glad the season has finally started. Take a look at my little cutie below, he was all decked out in MIZZOU gear!

Have a FABULOUS week!!!