Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Teacher Appreciation

Parents...Thank you all SO VERY much for all of your kind words and generosity during Teacher Appreciation week last week.  I was truly overwhelmed at the thoughtfulness of all of you and your families.  The children came in to school everyday with such excitement!!  It was a wonderful week for us all!  My sincere thanks to all of you:) 

On a side note...I'm sorry for my lack of my pictures.  My camera broke so it's been difficult to capture all of our AMAZING learning experiences.  Hoping to get my hands on a new one very soon so I can continue uploading more pictures of our end of year activities! 

One more heads up...we are working on our final reader's theatre titled "1st Grade Adventures"  An invitation will be sent home soon!!  Hope you can join us!!

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Donations for West, TX

Bing $2 tomorrow to donate for people in need in West, TX!  You will receive a Free Shirt Day for Thursday

Monday, April 22, 2013

Happy Monday Everyone!!

Today has started our FINAL 6th 6 weeks!  Our Awards Assembly will be this Friday!

We have implemented a new Incentive Game for our last 6 weeks.  To sum it up, the children will have to "earn" points everyday.  One white puff ball = 1 point.  One colored puff ball = 5 points.  This week their goal is to earn 50 points.  Next week's goal is 60 points, and so on...The final week's goal is 100 Points.

How do they earn points?  Everytime I see them staying on task...stretching their brain....helping out a friend....they get a puff ball in the cup.  At the end of each day, the star student of the week will tally up the "points" and add it to our Points Chart.  This is also extending our Math lessons in graphing.  They will work on adding and subtracting by figuring out how many points are needed throughout the rest of the week to meet their goal.  If they have met their goal by the end of the week, they will receive a "reward"!

It's the end of the year and we are getting a bit restless:)  This will hopefully be a wonderful and positive way to keep them excited and learning until the last day of school!!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Peep Experiments...

We made predictions and observations as to what will happen to our "peeps" when we put them in vinegar, water, sprite, and apple juice.  This is an ongoing experiment that we will be writing and drawing about each day this week!!









Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Friendship Day

Don't forget...your children are encouraged to bring in Valentine's cards this Friday.  A class list was sent home on Monday with all of our friends names in 1A. We will be decorating bags so every student with have their own "space" to go around and put their Valentines in.  Thanks!! 

Book Fair

We visited the store Book Fair this morning!  All students were able to create their "wish lists".  They may bring money at any time this week...until Saturday:)

Monday, February 4, 2013

100th Day Celebration

 All of our friends with their 100th Day shirts!!
 Creating our 100th Day Books!
Making shapes and patterns with 100 Qtips
 Connecting 100 paper clips...

 Valerie, Winston, and Aarav made one long line with all 100 paper clips

 100 cotton balls...



 100 cup sculpture by Aarushi, Cyrus, and Yuvan
 100 Smarties Scavenger Hunt
We found a square for each candy on our 100 Graph!