Happy Spring!!!

It was such a beautiful day that we decided lunch outside was a must! We had a great time soaking up the sun, enjoying each other's company, and eating our yummy lunches. Spring is officially here!

Happy Birthday!

Today was Jazmine's Birthday and Brayden's last day at Westshire. To celebrate Jazmine brought beautiful cupcakes and we also celebrated Brayden's Birthday since he will be seven on the 13th! Happy Birthday Jazmine and we will miss you, Brayden! Coming up in March we have Trey and Layla who will also be turning seven. What an exciting month for first grade!

Miss Megan and Jazmine get ready to pass out cupcakes!

A "cake" made out of cupcakes!

Happy Birthday, Jazmine!

Happy Birthday, Brayden and good luck in Maine!

Learning about Martin Luther King Jr.

On Friday we talked about who Martin Luther King Jr. was. Students loved hearing about history and had several great questions. Their questions and comments were heartwarming and inspiring. If only we could all see the world through a six year old's eyes! Here we are watching a cartoon, Our Friend Martin and below you will find the first graders' dreams for the world; they certainly have it figured out.

"I have a dream that people stop putting trash in the ocean."

"I have a dream that bad guys turn into good guys."

"I have a dream that the good guys win."

"I have a dream that we would be nice to everyone in the whole entire world."

"I have a dream that people don’t throw trash anywhere but in the trash can."

"I have a dream that people will learn more about how to take care of our earth."

"I have a dream that everyone can be friends so we can all have friends."

"I have a dream that people won’t be mean to other people."

Back to School!

Our first week back in the new year was a lot of fun! Take a look :)

Scotty asked if he could read a book that he has been practicing to the class! He did a great job!!!

We wore our PJs on Friday and did the stuffed animal greeting!

Here we are in our PJs with our stuffed animals!

We also were all given a hat to keep at school! We will get to take them home when winter is over. We were so excited!

Holiday Fun!

This week has been very busy and the fun is not over yet! Here's a peek at what we have been up to this week so far:

We have been learning about the doubles in math. You may have seen the doubles rap I sent home for your first grader to practice! Here is Trey thinking about how to beat Miss Lloyd at this doubles game...

Trey's face when he did, in fact, beat Miss Lloyd!

Princeton working hard on ST Math

Kevin and Princeton playing a doubles game

Layla and Mayanna starting their doubles game.

Thursday we wrote letters to Santa! We are planning to leave them out with the milk and cookies!

Mrs. Limlaw helping Jazmine write her letter to Santa.

Thursday we also did a Christmas craft!

Ronan's putting his "ornaments" on his tree!

Bentley made his tree!

Kaylee's finishing her letter!

Come back tomorrow to see all the Christmas fun we had on our last day of school before winter break!

Happy Thanksgiving

When it's the day before Thanksgiving you come to school in your PJs and watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!!

We made turkeys that say what we are thankful for!

Autumn making her turkey!

Ronan's Turkey!

Mayanna's Turkey!

Ariah's Turkey!

Here's everyone with their turkeys, PJs, and stuffed animals!

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

"Happy Thanksgiving!"

First Grade ROCKS!

The first graders have been working hard on responsibility, being outstanding scholars, being cooperative, kind, and safe in order to earn ROCKS in our classroom ROCKS jar. I am excited to share with you that they have filled the jar for the first time this year! We voted as a class and decided to have pajama and stuffed animal day on Wednesday, November 21, 2018! Students are allowed to wear their pajamas and bring ONE stuffed animal from home-it must be small enough to fit in their backpack. Please make sure they are still dressed appropriately for the weather. We talked about no slippers as well as they are a safety issue. Also, a reminder that Wednesday students are dismissed at 1:00 pm.

Way to go First Graders!

Happy Veteran's Day

We learned about Veteran's Day this week and students wrote thoughtful letters to our deployed troops and our Veterans. Check them out:

Math update

In math we have been learning how to count on to add. Students have been working with dominoes, dots, and numbers to do this. We count on from the larger number to find the sum. For example 5+3=    we would solve by counting 6, 7, 8 to figure out the answer is 8! Here are first graders working on this new math concept! Just this week we have started measuring and comparing items in our classroom using cubes and even an ant trail!

Students working on ST Math

Mrs. Winchester is our Title 1 math teacher and she joins us for math centers twice a week!

Here's our math journal. You can see how we've been counting on.

Trey and Ariah working hard on their math journals!

Week 6 ALREADY!

We are already on week six of first grade! Time flies when you're having fun! Week six included SO much learning.

During Guidance, students learned with Mrs. O'Hearn that it's okay to be different and we should celebrate our differences. Mrs. O'Hearn shared a story about how it's great to be different and then students wrote and illustrated something that makes them different.

"It's okay to have short hair."

"It's okay to be missing a bunch of teeth."

"It's okay to like mermaids."

Here the class was sharing their differences before they went to write them. 

In math students worked on teen numbers. After just six weeks students can identify, write, and order teen numbers. They know that teen numbers are made up of a ten and some more and that they can show them with their math hands, cubes, and ten frames.This week students learned how to put them in order and we started talking about one more, one less. Students have been working hard during math centers. We started ST Math this week, which is an iPad math program we use K-6. Students have also been playing the math games tic-tac-teen and tens pyramid. 

This was our math quiz-students did great!

This quiz gives you a better idea of what students should be able to do with teen numbers. 

In our classroom we call reading the Daily 5 because we have five literacy choices: read to self, work on writing, read to someone, word work, and listen to reading. So far we have learned about and practiced read to self, work on writing, and read to someone (new this week!) Students worked so hard to build their reading stamina and this week we made it to 12 and half minutes! The students were so excited and proud, as they should be! 

Eleanor and Autumn

Aubrey and Layla are adding a new word to their "My Writing Words" books. They are practicing using the strategy called tune into interesting words.

Connor and Mayanna reading their good fit books!

Princeton is holding his check mark so he can practice checking for understanding after Scotty finishes reading the page. 

Brayden and Ronan taking turns reading a book about volcanoes!

This is our chart so that everyone knows what to do during read to someone. 

And...tomorrow is the all school hike! I will try to get some good pictures to post on our blog in case you can't join us!