Valentine's Day

Wow! We had a fantastic Valentine's Day. The kids' excitement began first thing this morning as the boxes, candy, and cards flooded in! We spent the morning taking turns delivering our cards.

We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon working hard to finish all the things we HAD to do -- like Reading, Math, and all those other fun subjects! Luckily we were able to finish almost everything so we could enjoy some Valentine's Day Fun!

We had our own Minute to Win It challenges! We had a BLAST!! 2 of the first challenges were Candy Heart Stacking and Candy Heart Chopsticks. For Candy Heart Stacking, you had to try to stack as many hearts as you could within the minute. If the tower fell, you had to start again. For Candy Heart Chopsticks, the kids used the pencils as chopsticks. They tried to pick up and move as many candy hearts as possible from the plate.

You are probably wondering why those hearts are on so many of these cute faces! We had a medical emergency today... apparently there is a disease going around called Love Pox. It's spread by giving hugs! After each hug you give someone, a heart magically appears on their face!!

Next challenge... Cookie Drop! This one I'm sure you've seen on the show before. Oreos start on the forehead. The challenge is to get the Oreo to drop into your mouth without using your hands. It was hilarious watching them. Some claimed they couldn't do it because cookie crumbs got in their eyes...

Finally, we got to enjoy some delicious cupcakes from Mrs. Fisher. Afterwards, the kids had a chance to look through all their cards and candy! I would say it was a pretty successful day!



More Nonfiction Books

Gabe

Hannah

Julien

 

Luke

Maraina

Reagan

Xander

Research Project

A few weeks ago we began a new Reading Unit on Nonfiction. We spent time learning about the differences between reading fiction and nonfiction, including some of the different text features. This week, we finally put that knowledge to use! The kids were able to choose their top 3 research choices and I did my best to assign each child their top choice. They worked in small groups to research their topic. Over the course of the week, they were able to gather so much information about their topics! They certainly became experts!!

We wanted a cool way to show off all our hard work so we created our own nonfiction books. Mrs. Nall showed us how to make a book by using a paper bag and all we had to do was fill in our information! I was able to record several students reading their books below. I'm hoping to get everyone finished by next week. Enjoy!

Baylee

Lauren

Angus

Aidan

Dimitri

Katie Beth

Cody

Hunter

Johanna

Advice

After reviewing and practicing the parents of a friendly letter, we wrote some letters of advice to 1st Graders. We wanted to give them some suggestions to help them when they get to 2nd grade. So much thought was put into these letters. I didn't get pictures of each one, but they are hanging in the hallway outside our door. If you get a chance, stop by and read all of them!

Mrs. West was nice enough to let us come in and read our letters to her class. It was a great way for the 1st graders to ask some questions about 2nd grade! It won't be too much longer!!

100th Day

Last Tuesday was the 100th Day of School. We did several fun activities throughout the day to celebrate!

We played a game called Roll to 100. Each player took turns rolling the dice. They would color in that many boxes on their 100 Board. The first player to reach 100 was the winner!

Then we tried building things with 100 Legos and putting together 100 piece puzzles! The puzzles were harder than we thought!! While the kids were working on these projects, I called small groups over to my table so we could make our 100th Day Trail Mix.

We had 10 different snacks. Each child picked 10 of each item to put in their bag. They could not WAIT to get those snacks in their little tummies!