We are beginning to work on number sense. This week we have been focusing on numbers 6-10 on the tens frame. We notice a pattern when creating these numbers on our tens frame. 6 is five and one more, 7 is five and two more, 8 is five and three more, 9 is five and four more, 10 is five and five more. This is helping us understand ADDITION. We have talked about what an addition symbol means and we can identify it. We have talked about what an equals sign means and we can identify it. Here are some pictures of our math centers that allow students to apply skills taught during lessons.
Our theme for the next two weeks is apples. We have been learning more about how plants grow, parts of a plant or tree, what happens to trees throughout the year (seasons), life cycles, what plants and trees need to grow and survive, and we are going to be doing some fun experiments with apples this Friday. Pictures to follow. Wow, what an exciting and memorable day. We had a pep rally to show our school spirit......BUT..... This was not just any pep rally. NO WAY. THE CAROLINA PANTHERS were at our pep rally. Lined up and ready for our big surprise pep rally. We found a clue...it gave us a hint about WHO our special guest were! The Panthers DJ got us pumped up! Mrs. Burt and Ms. Massey had to stop and take a selfie. We got really excited about all the dancing and cheering! Then the cheerleader showed up. Then the Harris Teeter Dragon showed up....but that's not all Sirrrrrrrrrr PURRRRRRrRRrrrrrrrr came...now we are REALLY pumped.... But that is not all.... Next, came our principal, Mrs. Gritz, in her fun Panthers oufit to be the judge for our character jeopardy..... But that is not all..... Next, came Panther's kicker, number 9, Graham Gano.... But that is not all.... Next, came Carolina Panthers Linebacker, number 58, Thomas Davis ....and just when you think the excitement is going to end....it keeps going :)... Next..... We played character jeopardy WITH the players We had a teacher and student dance off We had a teacher and student obstacle course race (our student's dad is on the left) Our teachers had a race to dress in THE football uniforms... That is our very own Sugar Creek teachers in number 12 and number 17 uniforms. Then the school gets awarded $2,500 grant And then Sir Purr makes us laugh at the very end of the pep rally....... It was truly AMAZING. I am sure it will be imprinted in some young minds for years to come and we will surely have some new Panthers fans if they are not already! We are learning about punctuation. We learned the names of punctuation marks ( period, exclamation mark, and question mark). We spotted some punctuation during our reading time. We also spotted some sight words. We are super stamina readers! We have focused fun while learning in the morning. We practice applying skills used from the previous day! We had lots of fun reading Harold and the Purple Crayon and learning how to spell purple on purple day! What a sunny day we had in kindergarten learning about yellow! We read The Sunflower House by Eve Bunting. We learned about the life cycle of a Sunflower and talked about connections we had to the story. We are exploring our learning centers! They are having so much fun making new friends and getting used to the classroom! We are going to have so much fun our first week of kindergarten! Classroom is ready for some sweet kinders! Meet the teacher gifts are ready! We had so much fun on our field trip to the strawberry patch. We sampled quite a few strawberries, went on a hay ride, we even got to see how the flower produces the fruit which ripens. Afterwards we had a picnic lunch and had some good ol' plain kid fun at the park. We went on a hay ride and we spotted the coolest thing in the sky..... A blimp traveling somewhere... It was so close. Mrs. H taught a great lesson about using our five sense in free verse poetry! We even got to sample a delicious cookie! We have been learning more about graphing in preparation for 2nd grade. We took a survey of the class ages and worked together to represent the data. Here is we hat we came up with. We have some new class pets. The tadpoles have been sparking some interesting questions. We have loved watching them grow and change! Funny how these little creatures remind me of theses sweet Firsties that I have had the privilege of watching grow all year! We are busy at work writing our Realistic Fictions books. We are developing our characters, thinking of a realistic setting, and a problem that could happen in real life. We are EVEN practicing incorporating dialogue into our books. I am impressed with all the stories...We have character that are going to the gym to get big muscles and the character is so strong that when he slam dunks the ball he cracks the backboard.....to......a character that finds a baby bird and has to put it back in it's nest.....to.....a character that is learning how to swim. I am so impressed with the students creativity. We gave our Alfalfa and Rye "lawns" a good mowing before we left for Spring Break because BOY did they grow tall while we were on vacation. We were all surprised to see them this morning. We measured the length today and some of our lawns were over 12 inches in length. Needless to say we had to "mow" them again today! What an amazing day to kick off the start of Spring Break. I am posting this after the fact (so I can't believe we are back with only a 7 more weeks of school). This post is already making me a bit tearey eyed thinking that my sweet Firsties will be all grown up and heading the 2nd. They change so much throughout the year. Let me get back to this Fun Run stuff. Wow, was I proud of our kiddos!!!! Mrs.Burt's class raised over $400 dollars which means that I will join many of the other teachers who are sleeping on the roof as a goal. I think I am going to need to bring my snake,bug, and night critter repellent. In addition to the money we raised our class ran LOTS of laps ( many of them ran/walked over 3 miles). We kicked off the Fun Run with a pep rally and the National Anthem along side the ENTIRE school. We danced on our way out to the run.... They were SO excited!!! The fun run was decorated SUPER cool!!!! I love Jaaron's body language in this picture.... You can see how excited he is! We are working on double digit addition strategies and integrating technology at the same time. The kiddos loved checking their work using QR codes. We have been constantly working in building reading stamina in First Grade. Each day there are a few mystery readers picked. They get to showcase their trophy on their desk for the day before a new mystery reward is rewarded the next day. We have had quite some growth with our Brassica seeds. We also planted some Rye. Students will see that our grass keeps growing after a lawn mowing. We are hoping to "mow the lawn" before we leave for spring break. When we get back from spring break we will have do a serious lawn mowing session. We have begun our plants unit. We are learning about the parts of the plants ( roots, stem, leaves, flower, seeds) We are conducting several inquiries. We wanted to see how the stem carries food to various parts of the plants. We used white carnations AND LOOK what happened to the flowers. We also used celery but it died before Mrs. Burt could snap a picture. We talked about why we think the flowers of the carnation and leaves of the celery changed colors. We determined that the stem is like a drinking straw and sucks up the water and carries it to the flower and leaves. We planted Brassica seeds. We have used our scientist eyes and drawn in our plant journals two times. On the first observation we just observed soil and "some" seeds. On our next observation we started to see a sprout. We are beginning to understand the life cycle of plants. We are also learning that our plants need fertilizer "plant food" and water, space, sunlight to grow into adult plants. We read the book "SEEDS" and were really interested in the avacado seed at the end of the book. Luckily Mrs. Burt eats a lot of avacados and brought one in. We have put this under our grow light to see what happens. There has also been talk about sampling a real avacado to graph if we "like" or " dislike" the taste. We were all amazed at the parts of the plants we eat.... Carrots are roots, and spinach is a leaf, cinnamon is a stem, a coconut is a seed, and a strawberry is a fruit. We have been using our scientist eyes to take a closer look at what parts of a plant we are actually eating. We even saved some orange seeds from lunch and have put them in some soil under our grow light. First grade went on a field trip. This field trip actually came to us. We went into a pull trailer that was set up for gem mining. The students were SO SO SO excited with all of their finds. I love the photos that captured their amazement as they found their treasures. They were even able to TAKE the GEMS HOME!! When we went back to the classroom with our rocks and minerals we used what we learned about the properties to sort our rocks by COLOR By SIZE ( small, medium, large) By texture ROUGH And SMOOTH Next we tested their hardness We just finished our unit on oinion writing. We wrote reviews on books, restaraunts, toys, movies, songs, zoos, atheletes, sports teams, vacation spots, etc...... you name... We were experts! We were so happy to share our reviews with 5th graders for our writing celebration.. This time we shared with Mrs. Wertz class. |
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