Fall Party

The kids had a great time at our Fall Party yesterday. Thank you to the moms who were able to help and to everyone who sent treats and goodie bags!

Patterns

We are learning about patterns this week. In kinder, your child learned about using colors and shapes to make patterns. In 1st Grade, we explore new ways to make patterns, such as the way an object faces, growing patterns (which we call additive patterns), number patterns, and more!  It's so much fun to see the children realize that patterns are so much more than just colors and shapes!

Who Let the Vowels Out?

Caving!

Earlier this week, we read the book "Stellaluna".  When we reread the book the next day, a note from Stellaluna fell out!  She's asking for our help. See the note below. 

The students are so excited to help Stellaluna!  

Before we can help her, we have to learn as much as we can about caves. Here's a few pictures of our cave explorers wearing their "spelunker" hats while working on our cave books. So cute!

A Day in the Life...

Just a typical morning in First Grade. 

A little graphing with Lucky Charms. 

In reading, we've been learning about author's purpose. We used book order forms to sort books into two categories: entertain and inform. 

Freedom Parade

This week in Social Studies we learned about some of our nation's symbols and we learned that the Constitution is the set of rules for our country.

Today, to culminate the end of this unit, we celebrated with a "Freedom Parade".  We walked through the halls of Cline shouting "USA!" while wearing liberty crowns and holding torches (made from paper, of course).

The children enjoyed showing their patriotism and displaying their love for the US.  And I think they REALLY enjoyed being allowed to shout in the classroom and hallways!

You may want to turn your volume down just a tad before viewing the video :)

Thank you!

I received the sweetest surprises this morning!  Thank you all so much for all of the goodies, chocolates, candles, and especially the sweet cards. As I told the kids, "My bucket is full!"