Thanksgiving - Our Most Thankful Thing!

We had an author's celebration just before Thanksgiving where we got to publish our latest book; Our Most Thanksful Thing and share them with our families. This time we published ddigitally and made a little 'movie' of our book. The kids loved recording their voice reading the text, and despite a couple technical difficulties, it was a hit!

We had a great time this month learning about the Native American Indians, doing some sand art, learning to dance and make music, listening to stories and especially enjoying our 'popcorn day!' Even though it was a lot of fun to learn about, we're quite thankful that we live now, and not in the days of the pilgrims and indians!

PE...we can really move!!!

Our latest royalty!!!

Happy Halloween!

What a wild and fun day we had. We started the day with a parade around the school where we got to show off our costumes for the parents and other students. We had some amazing costumes! Then we had rotations with the other first grades. After lunch we did Halloween math, journals, and sqeezed in some reading time before our party started! We had so much fun playing games, listening to a scary story, touching weird gooy things in cauldrons, and decorating cookies. Thanks to our great parents, it was a blast! It should be illegal to have that much fun in one day!

Our Author's Celebration

Wednesday we had our first Author's Celebration. Each of the children chose their best (or favorite) story that they wanted to share. Our audience included our first grade friends, parents, and little brothers and sisters. I was so proud of all the children and their wonderful stories. I was also proud of how each of the children were able to read their story into the microphone and show their books on the document camera. It can be a scary ordeal, but they did great!!! Way to go, kids!

My Birthday Video - Way too fun!

My cute first graders, with some help from some incredible moms put this video together and surprised me on my birthday! What a day to remember! Thank-you, thank-you, thank you!

Pocket Day!

What a crazy fun day we had on Pocket Day! Our class had the most pockets in the whole first grade. With outfits like these it was inevitable! We had a day full of fun math and literature activities.