100th Day!

We had so much fun today!  The 100th day of school is probably one of my favorite days to be a teacher.  We teamed up with Mrs. Ballard's class today and had a whole lot of fun!  This morning the kids entered through a special doorway to find 100 Hershey Kisses scattered throughout the classroom.  They were all labeled with a number on the bottom, they had to identify the number and place the Hershey Kiss on a 100's chart. 

After finding 100 Hershey Kisses, we headed to the cafeteria where we read 100 CVC words...

and wrote 100 CVC Words.... 

We ran into a little old lady who looked A LOT like Mrs. Wanke.  After completing our CVC challenge, we headed back to the classroom where we listened to our skip counting songs, and read 100 books!!!  After reading, we got our bags of 100 items and compared weight.  Ashley had the heaviest bag for sure!!

After lunch the kids did 100 exercises and wrote their numbers to 100.  

When I picked them up from music Mrs. Durand was so excited!  We had seven friends sing the Star Spangled Banner and earn their certificate!  We were both very impressed!!

Then we made and ate our 100's day snack.  Each kid took ten of each snack item and put it in a small bag.

We did a lot of fun 100's day activities with our reading buddies.  They really enjoyed resting for 100 seconds. 

It was an exciting day in Kindergarten for sure. 

This is not a picture from today, but it is a favorite from last week, and I have to share!

February Fun!

February has been a very busy month in first grade!  I apologize for not getting these pictures up sooner!  

At the beginning of February, we celebrated being 100 days smarter!  It was a fun day to be in first grade.  Time sure flies, it seems like just yesterday we were celebrating our first day!

We celebrated Valentine's Day on February 13th.  We had our party in the morning so I could go to my daughters Valentine's Day party at her school.  Thank you to all the parents who helped out with our party by donating their time or snacks!

On President's Day we had Tropical Island Day.  We went to the ICF property and celebrated with a first grade luau.  The kids did the limbo, hula hooped, colored pictures and Mrs. Smallwoood even did volcanoes with them.  I was in charge of the beach ball station.  We had so much fun dancing and trying to keep the beach balls in the air!  It was fun to pretend we were some place warm for the day!

Today the Baer Mirza's came to talk to the kids about Dental Hygiene and how to take good care of their teeth.  The kids each got a free toothbrush!  

100 Days of School!

I can't believe we finally made it our 100th day of school.  With all the snow and cold days we have had, I was starting to wonder if we would ever make it!  Don't worry, not only did we make it to 100 days, we had a blast celebrating!

 

We started the day by going to the cafeteria with Mrs. Carlson's class and reading 100 books in 1 hour!  The kids did a great job!

 

 

After we read our 100 books, we came back to class and weighed our collections of 100 things. 

 

 

After lunch we had the ice cream party that we were supposed to have on Friday.  The kids were so understanding of having to postpone!  Trust me, I would have loved to be here instead of the doctors with poor Natalie!

 

At the end of the day, we had an awesome 100th day snack!  Can you see what made it so perfect for today?

We wish it could be the 100th day EVERYDAY!

 

NO MORE SNOW!

As the title of this post indicates, I am so over the snow this year!  I can't wait to have some consistent time with the students and get back into a routine.  The kids did a great job when I was gone on Monday and Tuesday.  They also did a great job on MAP testing.  So in honor of that, I will be bringing in ice cream treats for them tomorrow.

 

I learned so many new things to try at my conference and we wasted no time getting started today.  The students learned about number rings today (pictures to come) and some students learned an addition game which has them adding 4 numbers and figuring out the missing addend.  All students will eventually learn the game, it will just take a little time.  It is definitely a game that needs to be taught in very small groups!

 

We also began an activity on expanding sentences that the students were really enjoying.  Tomorrow they are going to write and illustrate their sentences. 

 

Monday is the 100th day of School and we are going to have so much fun celebrating!  I can't wait for the students to see what I have in store!

 

Next Friday is Valentine's Day.  We will be exchanging Valentine's and students can bring them in whenever they have them completed.   Our party will be on February 14th at 10:00am.