A Great Narnia Story

Jacob and Cayden made a Narnia story from Legos.  Here is their story:

Susan is coming to the White Witch's castle.  She said, "It's between the two hills."  Lucy is already at the castle.  The witch is taking Edmund to the back of the castle. He is in danger!  Aslan is going to come and save them!

Crazy Faces; Crazy Costumes

Everyone enjoyed our costume party today.  First we had a costume parade in the gym.  Then we played Spooky Bingo and had some great treats in our room.  We had lots of fun!

A Narnia Story

Maraya and Brenden built a cool Narnia scene with Legos.  Here is their story:

The White Witch took Edmund and Lucy and brought them to her castle.  She did that because Edmund knew they were at the beaver's house.  Then the White Witch took three bad guys and brought them to her castle.  She is going to turn them into stone.  Edmund and Lucy got away!

Lincoln Log City!

Kendra and Carson built a Lincoln Log city all by themselves.  They built a bad guy's house (in the front.)  They also built a castle and an extra house behind it.  The very tall house is for tall people.  Good job, Carson and Kendra!

More Falling Dominoes!

Alex, Taylor, and Brenden make a really long domino chain.  Wow!

Falling Dominoes!

Talan and Jacob make a super long falling dominoes line.  (It goes a lot farther than the picture.)  Wow!

Welcome to my new first graders!

Welcome, first graders!  Can't wait to meet you and get into our school year.  We're going to have an awesome year full of lots of fun and lots of learning.  (Learning IS fun!)  My dog Colter and cat (Moshie) say welcome too!!

 Colter

Moshie

Jaeger's Surprise Party

All three first grade classrooms came to a surprise party for Jaeger.  Everyone waited quietly in the lunch room for Jaeger to come.  When Jaeger arrived, we all yelled, "Surprise!"  Everyone chanted, "Jaeger is number one!  Jaeger is number one!" 

We will miss Jaeger while he is out for his surgery, and then home healing up from the surgery.  Get well soon, Jaeger!

Check out the pictures from the party below...

Waiting quietly for Jaeger to come.  Then...  SURPRISE!!!!

Jaeger gets to pick out his cupcake first.

YUM!!!

Jaeger with some of his friends...

... and more friends...

... and MORE friends!!

Jaeger and Grandma Mary

Jaeger and Ms. Bennett

Signing Jaeger's poster.

Jaeger's Class

We will miss you Jaeger!  Come back to us soon!!

Illustrating Stories With Play Doh

Kenny and Morgan make a Play Doh illustration from the story, "Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent."  Cool!

Play Doh Illustrators!

Andrew and Jackson used some Play Doh to illustrate a

scene from "Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent." 

This is a story by Bill Peet.  Good job, guys!

What do our taste buds taste?

Our class has been studying the five senses... seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.  We learned that our brain uses those senses to find out about the world around us.  We did a taste test experiment to find out the different taste buds our tongue has.  Do you know what the four flavors are that our taste buds can taste?  Find out below during our "taste test"!


SALTY
We tested our salty taste. 
Our tongue has more salt taste buds than any other. 
Our body would die if we did not have salt.

 

Nolan and Tori try the salt taste.

SOUR

Issac is trying a lemon.  That's sour!

Makenzie tries the lemon too.

Kenny tried some bitter chocolate.  He was brave to try that!

Andrew doesn't think much of the bitter taste!

Jackson puts the bitter chocolate in...

Then we tried chocolate that has sweet with it. 

Ella thinks that tastes much better!

We tested the sweet taste with a sucker.

Our sweet taste buds are on the tip of our tongue.

...Jackson takes the bitter chocolate out!

Math Scroll Winners!

Our class has been working on their math scrolls for the past four weeks.  Each student has been writing numbers in order, starting at zero, all the way to 200.  We also had a contest to see who could write the farthest.  Our top winners were:

1st Place:   Kaitlyn H.  3,930  (tied for 1st... top number writer at home)
1st Place:   Tori L. 2,600  (tied for 1st... top number writer at school)
2nd Place:  Marissa M.  1,200
3rd Place:  Isaac S  1,015
4th Place:  Morgan W.  1,000

Our top scroll winners

The winner's scrolls are very long!

All of our number scrolls put together.  Wow!!

Colter's Birthday Party!

Colter, the Shiloh Shepherd, came to school for his birthday on February 1st.  He turned three years old.  The class presented him with the book that they wrote for him, as well as a number of fun birthday presents.  Colter wowed the kids by showing them that he can read some words.  He read the words SIT, DOWN, and PAW.  He had to practice a lot to learn those words!  The kids showed Colter how they are practicing to read as well.  They read their book folder books for him.  At the end of the party, everybody (but Colter), got to have a piece of birthday cake.

Some pictures from the party are below.  You can find more pictures on Colter's blog, which is linked in another area of this web page.

We share the book we wrote for Colter.

Colter likes his book!

We show Colter how to become good readers by practicing our books.

Jackson shares a favorite book with Colter.

Colter reads the word "down."

Colt opens a present from Aimee.

Ian gives Colter his present.  Colt is quite interested in that!

Colter opens another present.  He loved all of his presents!

Colter's birthday cake.  It was yummy!