Long, long, ago....

Long, long, ago......in Miss Fate & Mrs. Waller's first grade classroom lived 22 children.  They were so busy working they didn't even realize how much they were really learning......

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Centers:

Race to Draw

Flow App

Handwriting

Fairy Tale Puppets

Word Picture Sorts sh & wh on the SmartBoard

Earth Day Listening Center

Readers Theater

Fairy Tale Letters

Writing the Room with our screens

Guided Writing & Reading with Miss Fate

Stamping our spelling words in play dough

Comprehension cubes

Math:  We are continuing to learn about measurement and this week we introduced measuring tools.  We learned all about some metric tools: a ruler, a yardstick, a tape measure.  Inches, centimeters and millimeters were introduced.  The best part of math was our Math Metric Scavenger Hunt.  It was so much fun to see if we could find something that was 5 1/2 inches long or to figure out how long the book was after we measured it.

Learning about Rulers & Inches.....Measuring Scavenger Hunt

The Measurement is Right with Mrs. Waller!!!

Social Studies:  We are working hard on our lemonade stand.  The kids are brainstorming ideas for slogans and our banners....Right now we have many wonderful choices to pick from.....what will or final slogan be?

Discovery Education Field Trip.....was a blast!  We loved learning about Bears & the Outdoor Sensations. Thank you to Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. Bell & Mrs. Etzenhouser for volunteering and helping us out.

Bull Frog

We miss you Marin!!!

Snake

nature hike

making clay balls

our entire class in the bear den

Mama Bear & her cubs

Best Recess ever!!!

Bear den

TNT: (Try New Things)  We did a special surprise we have been working on for you all ...The Harlem Shake & we also worked on our Fairy Tale Book Banners.  We will present these in Social Studies so their peers can learn all about the different Fairy Tales.

Hands on Science: (with Fate/Lorfing)
The children learned all about day and night and how the Earth rotates around on its axis.  Mrs. Lorfing is demonstrating how the earth rotates and with light.Then afterwards, we turned off the lights & experimented with hand puppet shadows & flashlights.  It was a blast!

Computer Lab/iPads: (with Waller/Wiedeman)
In computer lab the children played on the website: www.abcya.com  
They reviewed time and they also played Spring games on there....check them out at home!

Spelling:
Phonics Skills: Phonograms -ow, -won, -oat
Words: slow, grown, know, show, thrown, float, goat, boat, coast, toast
Challenge Words: setting, character, problem, solution
Surprise the Teacher Word: ???

Reminders:
***Sign up for Miss Fate's summer school classes! (iPad one & DIY arts & crafts one)

-Please send in any empty cereal boxes you have....we will use them in hands on science in the next couple of weeks....we need one per student so the more the better! Thanks! 

-April 29th Kindergartners are coming to visit First Grade and hear all about it from your children 

-May 10th is our 1st Grade Lemonade Stand @ The Morris Family's house more info. to come.

-May 13th in the morning we are going on a field trip.  We will walk to the Nelson Art Gallery Museum to see a book written by John Agee titled The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau.  By see I mean that Deb, one of the owners of The Reading Reptile, is teaching an art class at the Nelson that has students from the art institute creating a life size/walk version of the book in a giant classroom at the Nelson.  For more info. contact Mr. N. 

-May 23rd Our Last Day of School we have a field trip to the Winnwood Skating Center to go roller skating with 1st & 2nd grade more info. to come.

And they all lived happily ever after......Have a wonderful weekend, Miss Fate & Mrs. Waller