tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55345936993686606262024-02-08T12:02:05.704-08:001st-grade-world1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-62970198369486447572018-05-18T05:49:00.000-07:002018-05-18T05:49:22.290-07:00May 18, 2018This week the 8th grade went to DC for the week. The 6th grade went to Boston for the day.<br />
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In PE we did not go outside. <br />
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In Art we made robots. We got to bring home our wooden robots.<br />
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In math we are working on comparing numbers.<br />
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One reading group worked on contractions this week.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-4262084757590599452018-05-11T05:58:00.003-07:002018-05-11T05:58:51.221-07:00May 11, 2018This week we did hurdles and running outside in PE. It was the last day of track and field.<br />
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In Art we made fish dishes. A fish dish is when you make a clay fish and then shape it into a bowl.<br />
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In writing we are still working on narratives from our lives.<br />
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We had a check-in on Thursday in math about measurement.<br />
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We had our Spring Music Concert Wednesday night. Our parents came to see the concert. We sang Love Me Do, Yellow Submarine, and All You Need is Love. Some of us wore Beatles shirts.<br />
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In Social Studies we are learning about maps.<br />
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We had a Talent Show last Friday.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-87568339690518599002018-04-27T05:54:00.001-07:002018-04-27T05:54:56.930-07:00April 27, 2018This week we brought home our rockets from Art. We are now drawing pictures of robots in Art.<br />
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We went outside for PE. We went running, sprinting, and jogging. We did hurdles. We did the long jump.<br />
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We did a practice lockdown with the school.<br />
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In writing we are learning to write narratives or stories about our lives.<br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
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<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-5063991410877023722018-04-13T06:08:00.001-07:002018-04-13T06:08:33.926-07:00April 13, 2018This week we had early release all week. We had Student-Led Conferences for parents.<br />
We did not have PE because we got out early. We did not have any of our afternoon specials. <br />
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There is a Talent Show in a few weeks.<br />
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We had Multi-age this week. It was fun. We played Simon Says, Silent Ball, Zendoodles, and Charades.<br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
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<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-16156750428811943342018-04-06T06:01:00.001-07:002018-04-06T06:01:36.033-07:00April 6, 2018This week we watched the Middle School play of <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>. <br />
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We had an extra music class.<br />
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In PE we played Sharks & Minnows with the parachute.<br />
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We have 4 Winds today.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-4762198062381815712018-03-16T05:55:00.004-07:002018-03-16T05:55:55.914-07:00March 16, 2018This week we had yoga. We had to work in a different room because the gym is not available. The middle school is getting ready for the play <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>. <br />
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We are now adoptive parents! We adopted Howie, the manatee!<br />
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We are working on a new unit in math. We are adding numbers to make a 10, then add that 10 to the leftover number. <br />
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We are learning Spanish words for clothes.<br />
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In science we are working on "What is a liquid, solid, and gas? " A solid does not change its shape or size. A liquid changes its shape but not size. A gas changes its shape and takes up space. We watched a piece of ice melt in a cup. Then we used different materials to try to make a piece of ice melt faster than the 1 hour and 15 minutes it took naturally. <br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-90134842713570191412018-03-09T05:48:00.000-08:002018-03-09T05:48:01.649-08:00March 9, 2018This week we worked on our rockets in Art.<br />
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We continued to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday all week. The library hid Cat in the Hat hats around town to find.<br />
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In PE we did stations. One station was mini-golf. Another station was climbing on the traverse wall. We also did color tag. <br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-90454711824861998622018-03-02T06:01:00.002-08:002018-03-02T06:01:37.242-08:00March 2, 2018This week we painted our rockets in Art.<br />
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We jumped rope in PE. It was our last day.<br />
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In writing we wrote about manatees. We are learning to write informational pieces.<br />
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We are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday!<br />
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We chose Howie to adopt. We are finishing our unit on manatees.<br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
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<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-88769594243947654892018-02-16T06:01:00.000-08:002018-02-16T06:01:38.875-08:00February 16, 2018This week we jumped rope in PE.<br />
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In Art we are making rockets.<br />
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In science we are learning about manatees. They do not sleep, they just rest. We are going to adopt a manatee. They are related to elephants. They breathe out of their noses. Manatees are mammals. The babies nurse from the mother's armpit. Manatees do not have front teeth, they only have molars.<br />
They do not have predators and they are harmless.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-1285454062098553312018-01-26T06:12:00.001-08:002018-01-26T06:12:47.236-08:00January 26, 2018This week we worked with partners to pass balloons using our hands, feet, and elbows in PE.<br />
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In Art we are making cardboard rockets.<br />
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One reading group did research on animals.<br />
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In Language Arts we did not always use our journals. Instead we published our opinion pieces.<br />
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In math we finished a unit on shapes and patterns.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-29776619866814164462018-01-19T06:14:00.000-08:002018-01-19T06:14:07.010-08:00January 19 ,2018This week we switched reading groups. <br />
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We have STEM activities to do in our room. We can read books about snowflakes and then try to make a 6 sided snowflake from a square and a circle. We can also do a puzzle.<br />
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In Art many of us finished our paper dragon puppets.<br />
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In PE we were trying to keep balloons in the air. We also played tag.<br />
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We had a special Morning Meeting on Tuesday to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
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1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-5338351410294727992018-01-05T05:49:00.000-08:002018-01-05T05:49:06.646-08:00January 5, 2018This week we did not have reading groups. We had centers instead so the teachers could read with everybody. We had iPads everyday.<br />
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We made paper dragons in Art.<br />
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We are working on shapes in math.<br />
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We wrote letters to the 8th graders to thank them for the monster stuffies. We also wrote letters to Jan Brett.<br />
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We are working on hockey in PE. We used tagging sticks for a tag game. <br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-28880055765915895552017-12-08T05:44:00.001-08:002017-12-08T05:44:19.651-08:00December 8, 2017This week we ate gingerbread man cookies. We colored in the parts we ate.<br />
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We switched reading group teachers. <br />
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We had brunch for lunch and pizza this week.<br />
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Some of us finished our weaving in Art. <br />
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This week we started to read different versions of the <u>Gingerbread Man</u> to compare what is the same and what is different.<br />
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One reading group is learning to write a research paper.<br />
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In computer we did coding.<br />
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In math we are using number bonds to make Fact Families.<br />
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We filled Mrs. Wilcox's bucket many times.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-16739764719276623682017-12-01T05:54:00.001-08:002017-12-01T05:54:08.726-08:00December 1, 2017This week we got to watch <i>The Peanuts on the Mayflower.</i><br />
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In PE we did basketball. We dribbled the ball. We shuffled down the court and passed the ball. We pretended there was a buffalo coming after us to practice defense. <br />
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In math we are doing number bonds for subtraction.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-57655195882523268842017-11-19T08:14:00.002-08:002017-11-19T08:14:47.180-08:00November 17, 2017This week we did Language Arts. We did a lot of reading and writing.<br />
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In Social Studies we are learning about the Mayflower.<br />
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We got a new student on Monday.<br />
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We had shorter days all week because of Parent-Teacher Conferences.<br />
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In math we started subtraction.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-64079684607429153472017-11-03T05:46:00.000-07:002017-11-03T05:46:37.888-07:00November 3, 2017This week in Art we painted owls.<br />
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We had fun with Mrs. Wilcox. In science we watched a video about people fossil hunting.<br />
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We had reading groups. We are reading a lot of books! One group read about <u>Puppy Trouble</u>.<br />
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In Spanish we brought in pictures of loved ones on Day of the Dead.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-79185940241835598602017-10-27T05:53:00.003-07:002017-10-27T05:53:54.115-07:00October 27, 2017This week we had reading groups. Two groups read about cats in the shack. If we are not in reading group, we are writing in our journals.<br />
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We had Art. We worked with clay.<br />
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We are going to have Multi-age this afternoon.<br />
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Last week Theo Martey came to teach us about African drumming. We got to use the drums.<br />
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We learned that dinosaur nests kept the eggs warm, protected, and moist.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-41379729565587281262017-10-13T05:56:00.001-07:002017-10-13T05:56:57.586-07:00October 13, 2017This week we continued working on number bonds in math.<br />
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We made dinosaurs and put them in the periods they lived in. All dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic Period. The Mesozoic Period is broken into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods. We also learned that the Earth is made of layers. Then we learned that the dinosaurs lived in the different periods because of the layer they were found in. <br />
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We published out first piece of writing for the world to see. <br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-59320737868547426242017-09-29T05:44:00.003-07:002017-09-29T05:44:48.992-07:00September 29, 2017This week we learned a new game on the iPads called Spanish Smash.<br />
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We got a day assigned to use the iPad.<br />
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We are learning about dinosaurs. We learned people brought the bones (fossils) to the Montshire to look at. We also learned about Pangea. Pangea is what the world looked like a long time ago!<br />
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We started reading groups this week. When we were not in reading groups, we did our journal and worked on spelling with Mrs. Geoghegan.<br />
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First grade is awesome!<br />
<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-69883847232936432242017-09-22T06:07:00.000-07:002017-09-22T06:07:20.550-07:00September 22, 2017This week we started reading groups.<br />
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In math we used cube trains to help us count and compare numbers.<br />
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In science we drew pictures of things from nature.<br />
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In Guidance we made creations from nature.<br />
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We had a bus drill. We got to jump out the back of the bus. <br />
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We had fun with Mrs. Wilcox. (The class filled her bucket!)<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-86803365159610422112017-09-15T05:56:00.002-07:002017-09-15T05:56:30.594-07:00September 15, 2017This week we finished reading <u>My Father's Dragon</u>. The chapter on the lion was a good part. Some people liked when the boy gave the crocodiles lollipops. The boy gave the monkeys magnifying glasses to find the fleas on the gorilla. At the end, the crocodiles carried the animals down the river. Some liked the part when the boars tried to find the invasion. We liked when he rescued the dragon. We liked that book.<br />
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In math we did counting. It was fun to count out loud.<br />
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We had centers this week. We like using iPads. We liked listening to <u>Skippy John Jones</u>.<br />
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First grade is awesome!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-67133168187256899242017-06-16T05:58:00.000-07:002017-06-16T05:58:56.251-07:00June 16, 2017This year the first graders liked...<br />
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JB- running<br />
AC- having PE twice a week<br />
RR - having PE twice a week<br />
HR- calendar<br />
HH- Art<br />
MC- Art<br />
EH- Art<br />
CG- adopting manatees<br />
OA- adopting manatees<br />
LV- making Egyptian paper (papyrus)<br />
AF - Art<br />
CH- Art<br />
DG- PE twice a week<br />
MN - making Egyptian paper (papyrus)<br />
MP- going on field trips<br />
ES- recess twice a day<br />
DC- Art<br />
JC- reading groups<br />
EP- field trips<br />
RD- Spanish everyday<br />
AB- recess everyday!<br />
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Almost second graders rock!<br />
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<br />1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-59426148939370742752017-06-09T06:01:00.002-07:002017-06-09T06:01:57.120-07:00June 9, 2017This week we finished <u>Owls in the Family</u>. Wol liked to ride on the handlebars of Billy's bike. Weeps liked to sit in the crate on the back of the bike. Wol also bit Mutt's nose and tail in the story. <br />
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We started a new math unit on money.<br />
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In Morning Meeting, we gave flowers to the teachers that are leaving the Lyme School. The first grade got to move to the second grade spot.<br />
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First grade rocks!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-12815515874814689562017-06-02T06:01:00.000-07:002017-06-02T06:01:07.868-07:00June 2, 2017This week we had May Pole celebration (or June Pole). <br />
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In <u>Owls in the Family</u> they now have 2 owls. Wol likes to tease the family dog, Mutt. Weeps does not believe he can do anything, including flying. Billy tried to teach Weeps to fly by throwing him off the garage roof, but he still wouldn't fly. Wol did learn to fly.<br />
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First grade rocks! 1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534593699368660626.post-39470218182784365002017-05-26T05:50:00.000-07:002017-05-26T05:50:06.784-07:00May 26, 2017This week we started a new read aloud, <u>Owls in the Family</u>. The family adopted an orphan owl. It is funny! There are many things that take place that we should NEVER do in real life!<br />
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We are learning about maps. Maps are smaller than the actual area. We drew maps.<br />
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Some children got their eyes tested by the nurse.<br />
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We have a new Author of the Month, Mo Willems. We are reading a lot of his books! Everybody in class can read his books by themselves!<br />
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First grade rocks!!!1st-grade-worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09788289731110275103noreply@blogger.com0