Dinosaur Mania!

 Today was our field trip to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.  We got to see many different kinds of dinosaurs and fossils.  We even got to touch a lot of them!  We also got to go through a star tunnel, have our own dinosaur dig. put together large dinosaur puzzles, and so much more!  It was definitely a full and wonderful day!

 After we finished up at the museum we ate our lunches at Discovery Park in PG and then got to play on the amazing playground.  It was the perfect day for play!

Walk-a-Thon!

 Last Friday we joined the rest of the school in a walk-a-thon to help build interest in exercising our bodies and as a fundraiser for the school.  We had a blast!

 Some walked, some ran, some of 'ralked' around the 1/4 mile field.  We got prizes or treats for every mile.  Jordan ran for 30 laps!  He was the top first grader!

 When our hour and a half was over we were certainly pooped!

We earned cool glasses, grizzly wrist bands, key chains, water bottles and treats!  But the best  thing we earned was the satisfaction of accomplishing something harder than we thought we could ever do!!!

I love First Grade Writing!!!

This week, because of Mother's Day, we've been writing stories about our moms.  These kiddos of mine have the most amazing moms; it's very evident through their writing.  As I read their books I can't help but giggle at some of the creative things they say.  Here's a sampling...

"My mom has great stile.  My mom's stile is pretty.  My mom is cute!"

"My mom is pretty.  Her hair is as soft as a blanket.  She is tall as a jient.  her hair is a sbrown as a grizly bear's fur.  Her eyes are as shiny as a star.  When she talks it's like a bird singing a song."

"She can cook everything in the world.  She can do shapes without holders that are shapes!  She can even make the cutest owl cookies.  I love my mom's cookies.  I can eat one right now!"

"My mom can do longery about every week or so.  But the worse part is that I have to put it up.  But sometimes I get to lay down and watch TV or play.  Sometimes I like to get in the langery and mess it up and my mom has to put it back.  It takes a hour!"

"My mom's eyes glow like crasy.  My mom's hugs make you feel like you can do anything in the world!  I even bet that her heart feels like jelly!"

"My mom works as hard as a huney bee.  I will help every day so my mom won't die."

"She is pretty because her eyes sparkel like her eyes got transformed into jewles.  Her hair is as soft as the expesevest blanket in the world.  Her smile is so beautifl like a rose.  Her voice is so much beautiful.  she makes me want to die in her arms like I faneted and I stopped breathing!"

"She makes the best cakes ever!  She can make your mouth water.  It is so so good!  She can make it better than Subway.  You should try it!"  

"She has blond prity hair.  It is so soft as a new blankit.  She always has a botuful smile.  If you see it you will really really like it."

"My mom is a hard worker.  She vacooms the hows so it's always cleen.  She does all my londry when my basket is full.  She always cleens the dishes so the neckst time we use it, it won't be drty."

"My mom is beautiful.  Her eyes shine like little dimends and her hair is soft as little candy rapers!  Her teeth are white as a snugly polurbear.  My mom is nise as a dollfent.  When I look at her she is pretty as a pecok."

"My mom loves me so much.  She loves me more then 20000,000,00 dallers.   But we sometimes we have fights about who loves more.  But I think I love my mom more then my mom's home made chicken pie!"

"My mom is pretty.  She has shiney brown eyes like the stars.  My mom's teeth are as shiney as ice mixed with snow mixed with water."

"She works like a bee. She kleens up as fast as a race car.  She is as nice as a puppy."

"My mom is a good cook.  She lets me eat like 20,801, 350 oringsticks a day.  She makes delishis cookies. The cookies are all chocklit, even the chocklit chips!"

"She is as cutly as a panda.  Sometimes she holeds me so close I can't get out!  She will melt your hort."

"My mom is a great cook.  She makes yumy choclate cake.  If you eat a crum your mouth will water.  It tastes so good that it tastes like dineomite exploded!  It tastes like real choclate."

"I love my mom more than a cookie."

"She rmines me to do my chors.  She weycks me up.  She dus my homewoke. She gives me a bandad whin I have a bludy knee.  She dus my loggery.  I love my mom."

"My mom is good at cooking.  She's the best at cooking panda egspres cheken."

"She can make choklit and voanla cupcakes with dots of food coulering.  I can't teast the food coulering.  She can make the best cake ever.  It is so yumy.  I like angle food cake the best.  She puts frousting and strawberys.  It is dealishes.  I love it.  You should get the reacepea from her."

"My mom is buttuful.  Her eyes shimer like stars.  Her close are like jools.  Her hair is golden.  Her joolere is shiny.  She even has a cecles and it has a real perl on it!  My mom's smile is so wide that I have to smile bak."

"My mom is as cool as school.  My mom's eyes are as bright as the sun.  Her hair is solt as a fether.  My mom in my eyes is always byootyful."

"My mom is realy good at playing games.  She wun me like a thowsend times!  She wins me the most with vunopuly deal."

"My mom is a good cook.  She makes the best choklate cake.  She even can make vanila cake.  It taists like a choklate swiming pool."

"My mom is a fantastic cleener!  She vacums.  She pics up my toys instid of me cle ning my room.  She dos the logeree and the dishis.  She mops and clens my sisters bedrom."