Christmas came early in 1st grade!

Today we opened a gift from Miss Nancy and Miss Lloyd! We had to wait all day and earn five “oh yeahs” for good listening and learning but we did it and boy were we excited!! 900 new Legos for choice time creations!

What’s in the box?!

LEGOS!

We were a bit excited! 

Some silliness and a few creations from today! 

It's the Doubles!

This week we started learning about the doubles. Doubles are addition facts with the same addend. Here's our doubles rap that we have been practicing.

Check out our paintings! We picked which number we wanted to double, painted that many objects and then folded it over to show the total.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a fun week talking about Thanksgiving traditions, family time, and all the things in our lives we have to be thankful for! Today playing games with our grandparents was so much fun!

Our Thankful Turkeys!

We also had a great time playing games with our grandparents!

Today was our Harvest Luncheon! We all had the opportunity to eat a Thanksgiving meal in the gym as a whole school. At the end of lunch, we recited a poem called Five Little Turkeys. Take a look!

Today Cooper turned 7! Thanks for the delicious and creative healthy snack! We  hope you had a fabulous Birthday, Cooper!

Our ABC Kindness Project

We have been reading authors Mo Willems and Kevin Henkes and studying what these authors do to make their books special. These are called an author's craft moves! Miss Lloyd was blown away when we were able to make the following charts about each author. What careful readers and listeners we are! We are going to be writing our own class ABC book all about Kindness and we are planning to mimic these authors we have been learning about. Stay tuned for an invitation to our book reveal!

Our very rough draft. Here are our ideas so far for each letter of the book. 

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Today is Daniel's 7th Birthday! Thanks so much for sharing pumpkin muffins with us. They were delicious! We are all wishing you the best day and a wonderful year being 7 years old!

Salad Time!

A big shout out to Makenna for joining us on Friday to harvest the lettuce from our school garden! Thank's so much for planting lettuce for us to enjoy! It was delicious and we had so much fun making salad with you!

Looking at our lettuce!

Closing our eyes and trying lettuce right from the garden, focusing on the taste and texture.

Time to harvest!

Time to wash it!

Looking at how amazing nature can be!

The spinners were fun to use!

Bon Appetit! Most of us really liked the salad!

Daily 5!

We have been learning all about the Daily 5 for reading! The five choices include: read to self, read to someone, word work, listen to reading, and work on writing. So far we have learned and been practicing read to self, read to someone, and word work. Take a look at us doing read to someone today:

It's helpful to point under our words as we read!

We like to get comfy when we read!

Really comfy!

We use a check mark to "Check for Understanding" after we read!

It's also important to look at our partner's book when he or she is reading.

We did a great job reading today!

Butterflies!

Today was a VERY exciting day in first grade! We found out when we arrived at school that one of our butterflies had hatched and was drying it's wings! That left us with two that were close to hatching. Right before math we saw that another one had hatched and we got to watch it dry and harden it's wings and fly away! Take a look!

The Tunbridge Fair!

Here are some picture Miss Lloyd took from the Tunbridge Fair! If you have any that you took from your group we would love to see them! Post them in the comments :) It sure was a fun day!!

A friendly horse name Coco!

Maple Cotton Candy!

 GO TEAM!

That was fun!

Ballon animals!

Lili got a flower!

Two turtles, a dog, and a flower!

Ducks! We liked the one with the funky hair-do!