Our first week of the New Year

We had a great first week back after Christmas break. In science we learned about penguins. We read nonfictions about them and then made our own All About Penguins booklet. Then in writing we did a short New Year's Resolution writing activity on cute sock paper.

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December Flew By So Fast!

December seemed to fly by so fast! Here are a few more pictures of things we did.

Professor Gizmo came to visit and showed us some neat science tricks.

The Big Idea Group and their monkey puppet came to visit. They brought our classroom the gift of "wiggle cushions" for our chairs.

The first graders did a wonderful job of singing and dancing at the music program.

The whole building joined together to sing Christmas songs at our annual Marshall Sing Along.

We made 80th day Santa's for our Zero My Hero Craft book.

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December Late Start STEM activity

Our December late start STEM activity was building a bridge out of cotton swabs and piper cleaners and supporting it with clothespins. Students worked in pairs to build the bridges and had a 25 minute time limit.

Here's our finished projects. Due to lack of time, we took the pictures the next morning.

Newsletter December 5, 2016

Gingerbread Week

We started our Gingerbread Man week by reading a traditional version of The Gingerbread Man story, and then all week long we read different versions. Next we made a "Gingerbread Man 1st Bite Graph". Students were given a gingerbread cookie to examine. They used their senses to describe it; then as they were looking at it I asked them to take a bite of it to tell me how it tasted. We then used paper Gingerbread Men to tear of the part that was bitten first. Then students glued their men onto a graph. The next day we colored Gingerbread Men based on how certain questions were answered to make our Gingerbread Men glyphs.

We ended our week by creating our very own gingerbread houses. Everyone had their own unique way of decorating their houses. It was so much fun!