December

December was a very busy time in Room 115! 

We learned all about different holidays around the world by traveling to different classrooms in first grade. Some of the holidays the students learned about were Los Posadas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Diwali, 3 Kings Day, Hanukkah, and Christmas. The students studied the traditions, foods, and decorations of each holiday. 

We hope everyone has had a fun and restful winter break! See you in a week! 

Thanksgiving time

We learned all about the first Thanksgiving and also about traditions we have now. To celebrate and review all we learned, we had a pie party and Thanksgiving centers. Thank you to Carlos's mom and Patrick's dad for helping out on our crazy, fun day! 

Making music like rock stars!

The kids had a great time playing their instruments with the other first grade students. Then they got to tell the class about their instrument. Thanks for helping your child with this project. 😃

Fall frolic fun!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the A.Z. Kelley fall frolic! It was a ton of fun and it was neat to see the kids dressed up! Thank you for supporting A.Z. Kelley and helping us get our new playground equipment. 

Tania after getting her nails painted. 

Zorro a.k.a Dasin 

Aubrey and her awesome face paint

Journee with pretty purple nails

Carter and his superhero muscles

Spider-man!

Superheroes and best friends

Aiesha with a pretty heart

Princess Melissa 

Bert and Ernie - or you can fall us Bernie Vetford 

It's the doubles, baby!

The students are going to be practicing some new strategies to help with learning their addition facts. One of those strategies is memorizing the doubles facts. Have your child sing the doubles rap to you at home! 

We also modeled doubles facts using graham crackers and chocolate chips. Then they got to eat their math tools of course! 

Look for doubles facts in real life objects around home. This door shows 3+3=???

Learning Is Fun!

Learning is fun!

Here are some pictures from different learning experiences we've had over the past month.

 

Subtraction Stories

The students had a great time becoming sharks to learn about subtraction. 

Using Adjectives in Writing

Our rock stars loved bringing their stuffed animals to school and sharing them with the class.  They described their stuffed animals using different adjectives to tell how they looked and felt.  Then they wrote a story using their stuffed animal as the main character.  Look for their stories to come home after fall break!

Pumpkin Investigations

Thank you for sending in pumpkins for our pumpkin investigations.  The students measured them with cubes, counted the lines on them, used adjectives to describe them, and predicted if they would float or sink.  Ask your child what the pumpkins did when we put them into water!  We also predicted how many seeds would be in 2 larger pumpkins.  After exploring the inside of the pumpkin, we counted the seeds by putting them into groups of 10.  Miss Vetter and I carved the pumpkins and they added a nice autumn touch to our classroom!  All these pumpkin activities got everyone excited for the pumpkin patch.  Please check out those pictures on our other classroom website!