Entries Tagged as ‘1st grade’
April 23, 2009
Happy Earth Day Songs……yep….written and sung by someone named Puglisi
Here are some songs I am sneaking here an Earth day gift to you:
March 22, 2009
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
On the first day of spring we had a cake to say goodbye to a student going all the way to Tennessee, and then we made Very Hungry Caterpillars.
He’s an excellent artist and it was SAD but we tried to be positive.
And safe journey…..
All the kids made terrific covers for our books. We are making [...]
March 16, 2009
Flutterby’s
Our class really enjoyed several types of butterfly art making.
We’ve been waiting the annual order of butterfly caterpillars that we order so that we can grow our butterflies.
Isn’t this beautiful? I wish I could share why this one is especially touching.
Last year it was a success, so we’ll see this year. Our theme in Avenues [...]
March 15, 2009
Hats For Sale
One of the things the 1st graders in room 5 at Hathaway in Oxnard have been doing is reading, writing and drawing hats.
Inspired by Caps for Sale
and the Cat In The Hat ,
as well as using a fantastic Reading Rainbow that introduces a shop called “Hats To Where” then watching LeVar put [...]
March 15, 2009
Local Treasure
In our area, about 15 miles from my school is a museum, a research center called the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology.It houses a major collection of a collector that donated it to them.
Yesterday I got to visit. One day I hope to take my class or a group from my school. This week the [...]
March 10, 2009
Catching Up (EST)
It’s been a long while since I posted.
My bad.
Let’s try to catch up………..with a post or four about the things we have been doing in 1st grade.
How about our Shadows and project on following the movement of our EARTH!
That’s pretty cool stuff.
We are in a project carried over from last year called Exploring Space and [...]
February 9, 2009
Hearts From Home, 100 days of school
Is it really time for Valentines and the 100th Day of School?
Both, as always.
For the troops we all made Love Bugs and sent these Valentines to them via the Hearts From Home project. Ms. Wolfson and my class often team up so we teamed to construct something for those we hope are kept safe as [...]
January 25, 2009
Our President Obama Portraits (and Writing)
These are the Portraits of President Obama drawn by children trying very hard to learn not only about the new President but how to make a portrait. It is not easy at all!
After they finished the kids wrote what they thought about what a President does, we have been reading and writing this week on [...]
January 21, 2009
Obama Portraits
We made some nice portraits watching the Presidential Inauguration. Our school made it really great by being sure all the TV’s were hooked up.
Just a fantastic way to learn history.
Also a great way to get inspired to draw.
