Happy Halloween!

Today was Halloween and in first grade we did some fun Halloween activities! We started our day with the spider web greeting!

Happy Halloween!

We had some Halloween math centers:

Addition BINGO with candy corn! Yum!

We practiced measuring using ones blocks.

Miss Amy helped us solve a Halloween word problem! Look at all that orange and black :)

This is an example of a word problem you might see in our classroom!

Some of worked on ST Math. It's really fun, but it also challenges our brains!

We even won the box top challenge for the month of October-AGAIN! Stay tuned for photos of our decorated pumpkins :) Happy Halloween! Be safe tonight and have fun!!

What a BUSY Week in First Grade!!

We have been practicing our literacy centers. They are called the Daily 5. They include:

1. Read to Self

2. Read to Someone

3. Word Work

At word work, we practice reading and writing "trick words" which are the words we cannot tap out because they don't follow the rules! This week our words are: is, his, and, the and of. You could practice them at home, too!

4. Listen to Reading 

5. Work on Writing

This week we were working on writing about a fall walk we had with Maggie Stoudnour and the Kindergarten class!

On Wednesday starting this week, we had Spanish. Comfort comes from the Mountain School and brings a few of her students. We learned how to say "My name is" and how to count to 10 in Spanish!

Here is Emily trying to count to 10 in Spanish ALL by herself! Nice job, Emily!

In math we are working on measurement. We are learning about length and words to describe objects, such as narrow, wide, tall, and long. We had some fun measuring with paper ant trails too!

We made this true by having Bentlee stand on one side and Emily on the other. When we read "Bentlee is taller than Emily" we realized it was true!

For "longer" we used hair. At first we tried it this way..."Thomas's hair is longer than Kaylee's" which was funny, but we realized it wasn't true!

We had them switch places and we thought it made much more sense!

And finally, Miss D. who came to teach us art with Ms. Bando, had her last day with us this week. She will continue her teacher training at a high school. We made her a special card and took a picture with her because we will miss her so much! Good luck, Miss D.! 

Our card for Miss D.

The class with Miss D.

aaaand we really wanted to do a silly picture!

We had a great, busy week! Next week should be fun with Halloween and three way conferences! Stay tuned for more First Grade News!!

TEAM BUILDING DAY!

What does it mean to be a team? That was what we were trying to figure out last Wednesday! We played games outside ALL day! The games were so fun! We had to cooperate and talk a lot about what a good team has to do.  We did a few activities inside, but mostly outside. It was a long, fun day exploring kindness, team work, patience, and taking turns.

Here were our activities...

Don't wake the dragon: We had to arrange ourselves in order from shortest to tallest in order to escape from the dragon (Miss Lloyd). We didn't want to wake the dragon so we had to do it without talking!

Blindfolded obstacle course: We led a friend through an obstacle course while they were blindfolded. We had to use only our words to give directions. It took a lot of patience, cooperation, and trust! We did a great job!

Eva leading Connor

Emily leading Isabel

Isabel leading Thomas

Kaylee leading Addison. And check out Miss Amy's crazy hair!!

Noella leading Emily

Elsa leading Noella

Braylynn leading Nathaniel

Hannah leading Elsa

Addison leading Braylynn

Zola leading Hannah

Alden leading Addison

Dawson leading Zola

 

Connor leading Alden

1-2-3-4!: This game is like rock, paper, scissors. We count to 4 quickly and on 4 we all put our hands out with any number of fingers from 0-4. As a team, we are trying to get 11 fingers total. It was fun and we did great!

11!!!

Some great teamwork!

So close!

1-2-3-4!

A great team!

Egg relay race: We used real eggs on the pavement and plastic spoons. The goal: get all your teammates through the relay first! The catch: if your egg fell you had to go all the way back and get a new one!

Zola lost her egg! It went FAR!

Circle of silence (with a gem): One person stands in the middle with their eyes closed and the rest of us pass a plastic box with a gem in it around the cirlce. The gem makes a lot of noise when it moves so we had to move it carefully. If the person in the middle hears the gem, they point to where they hear it! We tried to get it all the way around without getting caught!

Nathaniel is in the middle and Kaylee is carefully passing the box.

We also played a few tag games to practice patience, kindness, and team work! Blob tag was one of our favorites, but we got frustrated easily. We had to stop often and talk about how to work as a team.

We even had snack outside and talked about our morning. We shared something we had noticed about the morning, what worked, and what we could do better to be a team.

We read two books: What Are You So Grumpy About? by Tom Lightenheld
and One by Kathryn Otoshi.

We learned a lot on our team building day! Since this day we have been working on bringing all that we learned about being a kind team who works together into our classroom and all that we do!