EGGstra, EGGstra, Read all about our eggs!

Spring has almost sprung in Room 1! On May 11th , Our eggs arrived from the 4H. We have a dozen eggs in our incubator. We need to keep the incubator at 100 degrees. We turn our eggs 3 times a day. We are keeping our fingers crossed and in 21 days we will have chicks. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Our first graders have created their own hungry caterpillar. We had  a guest artist, Mr. Bill Garvey, come in to teach us the technique of collage. We put our lesson into a slide show on voice thread...please check it out with the link below. We also created a video with our flip camera!

caterpillarhttp://sharing.theflip.com/session/360329fd1653d2224f339efb91e0c4c7/video/87122901


http://voicethread.com/share/1983071/

Fact Family

The students have been studying fact families in math. We decided to make a glogtser about what we know! We also learned how to make a glogster...check out our class glogster.
http://sgerardi.edu.glogster.com/glog-3146-6464/

Wonder

http://sgerardi.edu.glogster.com/wonder-275/

Social Studies Projects

We recently completed a unit on Needs and Want, Goods and Services in Social Studies. The students did two take home projects. The first project was a Needs and Wants Poster. The second project was a Goods and Services Wheel. I am very pleased with the student's projects. Here a few of our projects!

       Wow! What great work Hannah. I loved your wheels. Keep up the great work.

     Super Job Devon! I love the way you did your needs and wants poster.

                                                                                                      

Collection for Japan

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in Japan. Even though we are only first graders we did discuss briefy this tragedy. Our school decided to do a collection for the Red Cross.Students wore their pajamas and brought in donations. Some of our students took money out of their own piggy banks.
Talk about a teachable moment! Our classroom donation totaled $58.42! WOW! The school collected between teachers and students about $650.00.
                          Thank you all for your generosity.

I Pledge Allegiance

 

Two of our first graders were recently chosen to salute the flag at our town council meeting. The students were loud and proud! They did an awesome job.

                          Our First Graders Rock!

READ ACROSS AMERICA

We celebrated Read Across America on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Our students had a guest reader: a football player from our high school. He read the book Fortunately and That's Good No That's Bad.  The students really enjoyed listening to those stories. Later in the day we had a Dr. Seuss Reading Picnic. The students read their favorite Dr.Seuss stories to their favorite stuffed animals. They also had the opportunity to wear our Cat in the Hat hat! It was a great day. We had so much fun listening to the story Fortunately that we wrote our own book. We will post it soon.

Valentine's Day 2/15/11

Today we celebrated Valentine's Day in our classroom. The students enjoyed a variety of activities all centered around Valetine's Day and Sweetheart candies. We wrote sentences with our Sweetheart candy. We sorted, graphed and added our candy. We made patterns too! The best part of the day was our Valentine Exchange...

VALENTINE'S ACTIVITIES