Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Zoo Comes for a Visit

We amazed the docents with our knowledge of animal groups!

We classified animals into different groups.

We sorted the animals by number of feet.

We sorted by if the animal had legs or no legs.

We sorted by reptiles and mammals.

We looked at vertebrates.


We meet Connor the corn snake.




















We looked at bird eggs.

We met Daltrey the screech owl.





We met Pistachio the guinea pig.


We got to touch different mammal fur.

We had a great time!  It was  fun to have the zoo come to First Grade!

Friday, October 26, 2012

October 26, 2012



He alone is my rock and my salvation.  He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.  Psalm 62:2
May we proclaim with boldness the goodness of the Lord!

A look ahead:

Religion:  We will learn about Martin Luther and how he shared God's Word with boldness.
Memory: Psalm 18:2
Grammar: Verbs
Spelling: Lesson 10
Math: Fact Timed Test TUESDAY over +0, +1, and doubles facts
Science: Animals needs and habitats
Social Studies: Maps
Art: Jack-0-lanterns
Literacy Centers:
  poetry: rebuilding a pumpkin poem
  name: sorting common and proper nouns
  phonics: filling in the middle sound
  alphabet- sorting real and nonsense words
  writing: writing with setting and character
  math: filling in area with various shapes
  computer: tinyurl.com/dolch4 and tinyurl.com/dolch3

Mrs. Smith has started teaching a few or our lessons.  We are very blessed to have her in our room.  She is very creative and shares a new perspective and fresh ideas.  I am thankful for her and hope she learns as much from us as we learn from her.

I am a very happy teacher as our class's behavior has been much improved.  Thank you for helping me teach your child respect to others, property, and our learning environment.

ZOO FIELD TRIP:  The zoo will come to us Tuesday afternoon.  The zoo will be bringing many animals from various animal groups.  The zoo program is an interactive presentation on animals groups and animal needs.

FALL PARTY NEEDS YOUR HELP:  The Fall party is scheduled for Wednesday at 1:45.  If you are able to come and help please email me, we will need parents to help with the centers.  This is a fun afternoon where we will have various centers, games, and snacks.  If the weather permits we may have some outside activities.  We do not dress up in costumes and students are to wear their uniforms dress.

Don't forget to turn in the OCTOBER BOOK IT forms next week and look for the NOVEMBER FORMS.

I will be collecting the October Book Logs and will put a new November log in your child's folder on Thursday.

See the Banner for information on the auction funds drive and a chance to cut Mr. Marolf's hair.

We had a fun RED RIBBON WEEK. We talked about how God made our bodies and what we should do to take care of them.  See the pictures of our fun week and door decoration.

This week we have learned about how God promises to love us,  no matter what.  We learned that God promises to forgive us through Jesus.  We learned that God promises to always listen to us and how God promises to always do what is best for us.

On my way out of school on Thursday I saw a full rainbow!  
A reminder that God keeps His promises!
Let us worship our wonderful God this weekend.

This week we did many things that were difficult for some of us, yet we all did our best, tried, practiced, and worked hard.  I was proud of the students.  I told them that they should feel good after attempting and accomplishing many challenging activities.   Enjoy our pictures from this full week!  

In HIM,
Amy
Maddie and Grace from 6th grade student council teach us about healthy living.

They were very good teachers.
(They also are Mrs. Smith's and my daughter)

We sign our names to be drug free.


Ties

We tie up drugs!




Indoor recess 





Our WINNING class door
We will get a pizza party!!









I know this is blurry but I had to show Lucas when he found out he won the poster contest!

Red Ribbon poster contest winner!

We rally against drugs.
Drugs make you crazy.


Be cool, Don't do drugs

We are too cool for drugs.

Freeze Out Drugs
Put the chill on drugs