Pajama & Movie Day!

 To culminate our Red Ribbon Week we had a movie day and could wear our pajamas to school!  What a fun, comfortable way to celebrate the fact that we've all promised to stay away from things that can harm our bodies!  Watching a movie with friends was way more fun than taking drugs would be!

Ancient Petroglyphs!!

We have had a blast learning about rocks and soil for the last 3 weeks in science.  This week we learned about how virtually everything we have comes from rocks or couldn't exist without rocks!  One interesting use of rocks was how the ancient Americans would write their stories on rocks.  Those pictures still exist today!  So we made our own petroglyphs  by carving our own stories into rock.  It was way fun!

Read-a-Thon for Red Ribbon Week

This week was Red Ribbon Week.  We discovered a lot of things that were better (and more fun) than taking drugs that would destroy our bodies and minds.  On Thursday we had a Read-A-Thon! That was definitely better than drugs & alcohol ! 

Read To Self!

We've been learning that to be great readers who love to read we need to read to ourselves every day.  We've been working on building our 'reading stamina'.  To do that, we've learned that during our READ-TO-SELF time, there are certain behaviors that we should have.  Here are a few of 

what the children came up with:

 Readers keep their eyes on the book and their minds thinking about what they're reading.

 

Readers use their mouths to mumble the words as they read. R

 Readers stay in the same place and don't move around the room.

 Readers focus on what they're reading.

 Readers choose a spot to read that will help them focus without distractions.

 Readers track the words as they read.

Enemy Pie!

After reading our new favorite book, Enemy Pie, we earned 'pie points' until we had filled up the pie.  Then we got to make our own version of Enemy Pie!  We started with mud and added worms and old fish, dirt, string...all kinds of strange things to get rid of enemies.  Then, of course, we ate it!  Now we'll forever be friends!  Strangely and disgustingly delicious!

Watermelon Day!

 There's no better way to celebrate the coming of fall than to have a First Grade Watermelon Day!  We had some great activities all centered around watermelon.  We learned about how they grow, played games, read stories, saw weird watermelon pictures, sang a new watermelon song, and, of course ATE watermelon!! It was juicy and delicious.

First Graders Get More Recess!

 The kids say that more recess was one of the things they

were looking forward to the most when they started first grade! 

Plus, they get to play on the 'big kid' playground!!!