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:

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Change, It’s Not Strange…

Change, It’s Not Strange.
Change….a song in memory of a little girl who loved her art, and my class too!
She planned to be an artist.
Bound to earth in wheelchair……held to life by her joy in being alive.
My 1st grade is learning this song as it has done for many, many years now in conjunction with our [...]

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!

A Baobab Told Me……

It’s a busy week in 1st grade anymore and it sails by in a blink. There are so many aspects to this for 1st graders including acquiring the reading skills to bank our new tree vocabulary. ( tree, bark, branches, leaf, leaves, wood, forest, seasons, winter, spring, summer, fall…so on) This is actually my front [...]

The 1st Grade Sun Flower Painting Art Gallery (Dedicated To Vincent Van Gogh)

Today we finished our paintings, here they are!

Nice job. I thought they looked very lovely.

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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 [...]