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!

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!