Long, Long Ago...

Long, long ago…in Miss O’Connor and Mrs. Herbers’ first grade classroom lived 16 children.  They were so busy working they didn't realize how much they were really learning…

Literacy Centers

 We LOVE guided groups!  This week, we have been working on our readers' theater scripts.  We are learning all about our Fairy Tale characters and improving on reading with expression.

 Centers!

Blended Sounds Dominoes! 

Writing and illustrating the setting of Sleeping Beauty

Putting the events of Sleeping Beauty in order

Creating our own similes! 

Creating our own alliterations!

Rainbow Roll Spelling

Listening Center:The Prince and The Pauper 

Sleeping Beauty castle story

Using My Writing Words book to help with alliterations- great idea!

Sponge paint spelling!  Messy but fun!

BIG weekly reader!  We are learning all about our Earth.  

Weekly reader follow up

Listening to The Frog Prince on Starfall.com

Beginning, Middle, and End follow up sheet to The Frog Prince

Math: We continued our study of 2D and 3D shapes.  We solved shape mysteries, wrote Who Am I stories using shape characteristics, learned about sides and vertices, and built shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows. 

Social Studies:

We have been continuing our Fairy Tale unit by creating play banners for our Fairy Tale characters!  First, we made the characters out of only construction paper, then we started creating the setting on the banner.  We then glued our characters into the setting!  They are coming along great!  

The Kansas City Zoo!!!

We had BEAUTIFUL weather for the Kansas City Zoo today!  We had a tour of Australia, and we saw lots of animals we studied in class!  Thanks so much to all of our parent volunteers who helped out!!

The sign of a great field trip :)

Spelling: rule: igh as/i/

Words: high, light, sigh, bright, night, tight, might, eight, neigh, weigh

Challenge: rectangle, circle, triangle, square

Surprise: ???

Reminders:
Be on the look out for a sign-up genius to help out with the lemonade stand!  The lemonade stand will be May 1st, from 4pm-6pm at the Morris' house at 58th and Summit.