Mom’s Day Present Making

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Thoughts on Dr. King from children’s lips to your ears

My class made a second movie set to music we listened to working…then they wrote.Recall they are in 1st grade, and Sheltered Immersion in a CA school trying to figure out why they get Monday home. ( I fixed some small things)
Here is what we have so far… Some 1st grade thoughts….
“Dr. King was important [...]

“He’s Singing Our Song”

Friday Dr. Puglisi began his weekly visits to initiate PE activities, songs, science and the project “Exploring Space and Time.” We learned a bunch of songs he WROTE!
The first song we learned was called “Days of the Week”
The words go like this:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saaaatuuurday…
The week have seven, not eleven, we can [...]

Said “Raven”

My class began November with a focus on themes like Being thankful, our “past”, America’s beginnings, our 1st people, immigrant arrivals, the unfolding of our nation.
In our U Pick It time, a box of books used for teacher shared reading, we sit in a circle and children each have a turn choosing from books [...]

Go Away Big Green Monster

So we say…….(finding this from someone that left it as a link, wow)
We will need to try our version. But….perhaps with wigs…

Today we made pictures of our Big Green Monsters in 1st grade ( preparing for upcoming mask making)
And found this too, great, reversing!