The 100th Day of First Grade

It's hard to believe our rockstars have been in first grade for more than 100 days now! They have learned and grown so much! We are so proud of how smart they are! The 100th day was filled with lots of fun activities celebrating the number 100. We had a 100 piece snack, read several 100 day books, wrote 100 words, did 100 exercises, and had a 100 second dance party! We can't wait to see how much smarter our rockstars get in the rest of our time together!

Daily 5, Resolutions, and Crocodile Club

We started the new year with a review of the daily 5. Our 5 choices during daily 5 are read to self, read to someone, work on writing, word work, and listen to reading.  Daily 5 is helping all our learners be more independent in their learning while becoming better readers and writers. Ask your child what they did during daily 5 each day!

We also learned about resolutions and everyone made a resolution for 2014! Then they wrote it on a guitar for our rockin' resolutions! 

The students who made Crocodile Club were treated to a performance by the Nashville Ballet of Ferdinand the Bull. 2 of our students, Saniya and Kyndall, even got to go on stage! The performance was amazing and we were very lucky to get to see it!

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