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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Meet Busta and the Kitty

Tomorrow my class gets a big surprise.
New hermit crab environment and two new crabs, the Hello Kitty and the Busta who is a bit of a giant!

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!

Alphabetically Speaking…..You’re OK

Before we went home today 1st grade had an ABC activity

They really enjoyed it immensely.

Tomorrow they’ll do another version.

And read for me their ABC strips on the morrow so we can “check” them. Some aren’t quite done yet.

I’d seen a big bag of letters at Lakeshore and thought….hummm.

So each child picked a buddy. The rules [...]

Oh….those ABC’s ( links we will be using in centers)

I have a site you really have to see as you discover the beauty of the ABC…
||| A ||| B ||| C ||| D ||| E ||| F ||| G ||| [...]

I Call My Hand Gentle

As the year starts we teach basic rules to help children be safer and happier in their interactions. They tried so hard today to listen. One of my main ideas this second day of working together is we learn from our mistakes. And I’m really impressed with the idea that we can speak in affirmation. [...]

What Are We Going To Learn from 15 Hermit Crabs? A Dozen in a Box for our Science Investigations

Friday among the MANY things going on (including a great vaudeville show) we were introduced to our 12 new hermit crabs. Now we have 15! Since they like company, it was fun to watch them run around their cage.
If ONLY the teacher didn’t have a herniated disk. It’s really, really impossible.
Here’s a video to see [...]