Friday, February 7, 2014

Winter Wonderland:

First Grade is so much FUN!!!!!

 
We made the CUTEST snowman clocks.  We can use our new clocks to read time to 5-minutes!! 
 
 
We played "Time Move-it!" using our snowman clocks.  Learning is SO MUCH FUN!!!
 




 
MORE Winter Fun:
 
We have been learning about animals all year.  For the past couple of weeks, we have been learning about ways that animals survive through the winter.  Some birds migrate, but others have to find food throughout the winter.  We made bird feeders to help keep their bellies full!
 
 
Directions for making bird-feeders:
 
1. mix boiling water, unflavored gelatin, and birdseed.   We used 2 boxes (8 packets) of gelatin and 2 cups of water and 1 bag of birdseed.



 
 
2.  Press the mixture into greased cookie cutters. (We used paper plates with a sheet of wax paper and plastic spoons)



 

 
3.  Push a straw all the way through to create a hole.  Leave the straw until the mixture hardens.


 
 
4.  Once the mixture hardens, remove it from the cookie cutter.  Remove the straw.  Put yarn or ribbon through the hole and tie it up to hang on a tree limb.
 
 
 
 
 And, of course, we wrote the directions to share with our families.  This could be a fun project to do at home!  I am SO PROUD of the writing these smart boys and girls are producing!  We have some talented writers in this beehive!!!
 
 

 
 
 
 
Record-Breaking Celebration!!!!!
 
We are SO PROUD of Monil!!!!  He is the FIRST student in our school to complete through level Z of Rocket Math.  To pass a level, students have to CORRECTLY complete a LOT of addition problems within just 1 minute!  Monil has passed 26 LEVELS!!!!!  WOW!!!!  To celebrate and honor his achievement, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. R. gave us a pizza party today!!! 
 
Congratulations, Monil!!  We are all SO PROUD of you!!!
 


 
 
 
It is a GREAT day to be a Busy Bee!
 

We're 100 Days Smarter!!!

Oh, my how they've aged overnight!!!! (good job, moms!!!)


 
We blew up 100 balloons!!!!

 
100th day snack




3 little old men working on a 100-piece puzzle

 
3 little old ladies working on another 100-piece puzzle

 
 
I wonder if 100 licks will get us to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

 
 
Self-Portraits: What I will look like when I am 100-years-old:




 
The snow began falling around 12:00.  Snow on the 100th day???  Is this the best day EVER or what???



Thursday, January 16, 2014


Our Christmas Party
 
 
We practiced and practiced to get our Gingerbread Man in the North Pole Reader's Theater JUST RIGHT.

 
The children did a wonderful job!  What smart boys and girls!
 

 
 
At the end of the day, I left the classroom like this.... ready for a good Christmas cleaning.  Lights off until the new year!
 

 
Hip-Hip Hooray for PJ Day!!
 
 
 



 
 
Santa's Milk and Cookies Experiment: Which cookie will float the longest in milk?
 



 
The sugar cookie was the first to sink.

 

 
Down went the oreo!  The chocolate chip cookie was the last to sink. 



We think the chocolate chip cookie has lots of air pockets between the chips and dough.  The air pockets give buoyancy to the cookie, allowing it to float.




We made yummy Santa hat snacks