Monarchs!

Today we started learning about the butterfly life cycle. We learned that butterflies actually start as eggs and then a caterpillar hatches from the egg. We haven't seen it yet but we learned that the next step is a chrysalis or pupa and, finally a butterfly! We have a whole jar of caterpillars in our classroom that are munching away on milkweeds! One has already started to make a chrysalis and several more are getting ready. We will be observing our caterpillars closely and waiting patiently for them hatch into monarch butterflies!

Welcome to our 2019-2020 First Grade Blog!

We are so excited to share our year in first grade with you! We will post a lot of pictures and tell you all about what we are learning! Sometimes we will write our blog as a class and other times Miss Lloyd will write the posts. Take a look at what we've been up to so far! It's been a fabulous start to the year!

Our First Grade Class :)

First day photos!

We all worked on pattern block picture puzzles. We even made our own!

We are Heart Heroes!

Friday was our celebration of our fundraiser for the American Heart Association! Thank you to everyone who donated, taught us about heart health, and joined us at Friday's celebration!

Our top jumpers from each class! Great job Fallon, Bryson, Emily, Layla, and Daniel!

Kindergarten

1st grade

2nd grade

3rd grade

4th grade

Fallon was our jump rope winner! Great job!

Ella received a medal for being our top fundraiser with $400! Go Ella!

Overall we raised $1,896! Way to go Westshire!

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!"