Summer time!

I can't believe the year is already over! We had such a wonderful year together in first grade. I am so thankful to have had such an awesome group of kids this year, I already miss everyone so much! Here are some pictures from our end of the year party. We are also lucky to have such great parents to help us organize such fun parties. We were the coolest class in the hall, hands down!

They got to fill their cool summer buckets with all kinds of goodies - check out that spread!

We had a yummy lunch and enjoyed our last day in Room 108! It was such a great day that EVERYONE got on pink! Can you believe it?!

I can't wait to see everyone in the fall! Have a great summer!!

Dino Week!

We have been having a blast learning about dinosaurs! We've incorporated them into our math and literacy centers (and a few extra fun things in between). 

 We got to check out some real fossils too!

 Each student pretended they discovered a new dinosaur (learned about its appetite, habitat, and even named them). Then we got to sculpt them out of play-doh! We took a tour around our "dino museum" and voted on our favorites. Such creative first graders!

 We got to practice our spelling words in shaving cream! Not dino-related, but still pretty fun.

Our school is so lucky to have had a wonderful author, Sandra Mendez, come share some of her stories with us! She was so fun and our first graders were a wonderful audience.

Lastly, here's a quick pic from our ice cream party! With a little bit of muscle we successfully turned a liquid into a solid (and it was delicious!)

Busy as bees

We have been having lots of fun during Hawaii week! We start each day counting all of the money we are donating - a great way to practice real life money skills!

 

We also worked together to solve a brain buster math problem. Each group had to contribute to their poster with writing, pictures, and numbers. Then we presented our information to the class. All 4 groups got the correct answer! We are such smart 1st graders!

 

We've been working SUPER hard learning double digit addition! Today we went on a number scavenger hunt! The students had to find and record number sentences they found around the room. So fun!

 

 We played a few games to practice our /oo/ words. We had to stomp on word that sounded like the /oo/ in foot and then sorted our answers to either /oo/ as in foot or /oo/ as in boot. Both teams did great!

Lastly, we read short stories in small groups. We are all becoming such good readers, I can't even believe it!  Look how hard everyone is focusing - wow!

NASA Field Trip

Our field trip on Friday was so much fun! We got to experience so many awesome things and really learned about what it takes to be an astronaut... we might even have a few in the making in our class!  We even got to meet Astronaut Ellen Ochoa who we read a biography about! (Just like meeting a real rockstar!) Enjoy some pictures from the day!

 

 

 

 

 

A special thanks to all the parents who helped out during the day! We couldn't have done it without you!

All About Shapes

This past week we practiced our shapes and patterns until we were experts! We made pictures, created patterns, and explored lots of fun activities with pattern blocks.

We also practiced sorting complete and incomplete sentences,

and wrote about the story elements in our weekly reading story! They did such a great job!

Carter brought a book to share with the class; he did a wonderful job being teacher for the day and everyone listened intently! :) 

And finally, we had ALL THREE science fair winners selected from our class! Congratulations to Hannah, Jonathan, and Vera! Awesome job!!!