Fun Run and Leaf Walk

Our Fun Run was a huge success!  What a bunch of speedy kids!

It is such fun to just enjoy a walk with my super fun first graders!  I love that they still get excited over simple things like leaves. :)

Stamina

Your first graders are amazing!  They have been building reading stamina since the first day and recently were able to read independently for 20 minutes!!!  That's a pretty big deal so Mrs. Peters bought them all books to celebrate! 

Our hero...Zero!

We listened to the book Zero the Hero and then made our own hero costumes!! Zero the Hero is just so super important!

math games

Playing simple math games is such a great way to practice our addition and subtraction skills.

I love so many things about Daily 5, but the first 'Read to Someone' is my favorite!  This time it happened to fall on a Friday so we tried out our flashlights.

Saving Fred

We tried a team building activity today and learned it is sometimes hard to work with friends but if we listen, keep calm, use kind voices, and encourage each other we will figure out solutions to our problems.

Best Start Ever!!

Wow!! Only ten days in and your kids are amazing me every day!
We celebrated Zero the Hero today- forgot to take pictures!  Sorry!!

In math we are learning about addition and have been joining groups of goldfish crackers, fruit loops, marshmallows, and pretzels.  Math is delicious!

We have been building stamina in reading, math, and writing.  We practice working independenly in all these subjects so I can have one on one conferences with students or work with small groups.  Our goal in reading is 20 minutes of independent reading and usually it takes first graders well into October to complete that goal.  Your kiddos are already at 17 minutes!  So fantastic!!
They also now know when they can interrupt me during small groups or individual conferences...

  

STEM activities have been exciting as we learned about the states of matter and our brain.  We have shot off bottle rockets, built a 'skull' to protect our brain, learned about our dendrites, built tall towers out of index cards, and watched corn kernels dance.