Vera

This is Vera!   She is this week's student of the week!   Vera's favorite food is fruit!  Her favorite sport is soccer.  She loves to read "Little Hoot" Vera has a pet cat named Abraham.  When she grows up, Vera would love to be a vet.  Her favorite thing to watch is Hello Kitty!  Vera's favorite color is PURPLE.  She would love to visit Chicago, and SHE IS visiting this weekend to pick out an American Girl doll!!!!!   Vera is special because her family loves her, and the best thing about Vera is that SHE loves her family!  

Isaac

This is Isaac.  He is our student of the week this week!   Isaac's favorite book is "Sponge Bob".   He would love to visit Florida someday.   Isaac's favorite television program is The Regular Show.  His favorite food to eat is cheesy enchiladas!   He has a dog named Prince.  Isaac's favorite sport is soccer.  His favorite color is GREEN.  When Isaac grows up, he would like to be a Marine!   The best thing about Isaac is that he is special and he is special because he always gives kisses to his family!

100th Day Fun!

Today was a BIG DAY in school!    It was the 100th day of school!   Almost our entire day followed the 100 theme!   Today's post is mostly pictures with captions for you to enjoy!   Thanks to all the parents who helped at home getting our 100 snack items, 100 weighing items, and even a few who wore a 100 theme today!   We even had 7 kids who have been at school all 100 days!   Wow!

These 9 kids wore some special 100 themed items today!   Back row: Keaton, Koltin,
Grayson, Ethan and Maddie.  Front row:  Brandon, Keegan, Mackenzie and Abbi.

Keaton, Jordyn, Maddie, Josie, Tommy, Olivia and Abby all
had perfect attendance for 100 days!  Congratulations!

We all brought in 100 pieces of a dry snack to mix together!  We then ate it
for our snack time today!  Yummy!

Enjoying the 100 day snack!   Looks like some sorting going on!

What fun to eat such a variety of items!

Snack time took a little extra time today!

Can we do this every day???

We weighed 100 items in balance scales.

After the kids weighed their items, they sorted them into
piles of 10.  If they truly had 100 items, they ended up
with 10 piles of 10!

We made 100 hats.

Koltin concentrates on cutting the holes in his 100 hat.

Tommy sorts his macaroni into piles of 10.

Brandon sorts his washers into piles of 10.

We made 100 hats!

Maddie, Hailey, Brandon, Isaac and Koltin work on a 100 piece puzzle.

Keegan, Josie, Abbi, Jaelene and Ethan completed their 100 piece puzzle!

Grayson, Evan, Mackenzie, Elijah and Keaton work on their 100 piece puzzle.

Tommy, Abby, Vera, Olivia and Jordyn work on their puzzle.

What a fantastic day!   These are the types of activities we look forward to and remember about first grade!   Thanks again to the parents for all the help at home!

Mrs. Cronk from the ODC returns!

Today Mrs. Cronk from the Outdoor Discovery Center returned to visit!   This time, she prepared a lesson for us about Winter Weather!   She began as she usually does, with a story called, "It's Winter" by Linda Glaser.

Next, Mrs. Cronk showed us two types of thermometers.  The first one was a vertical one with both Celsius and Fahrenheit displayed.   Mrs. Cronk told us that the 'red stuff' inside will contract and go up when it gets warm and when it cools off, it goes down.  She showed us how to read the thermometer, because the numbers go up by 20's, so with her help, the kids figured out the big line between numbers was the 10 in between, and the little lines were counting by 2's.   The second type of thermometer was a dial type.

We then talked about good 'winter words' and each child had a chance to give a word, which she wrote down on a poster.   Mrs. Cronk brought along a taxidermy squirrel to show us because she wanted us to notice the feet.  We would soon be going outside to look for animal tracks and she wanted us to notice the difference between squirrel tracks and rabbit tracks.

Next, we went outside!  Mrs. Cronk had two thermometers set out in different places, so we stopped to look at the temperatures in different areas.  We noticed that one thermometer had a little bit colder reading than the other one.  We also saw some rabbit tracks and some squirrel tracks!  We quietly listened for winter sounds and heard snow hitting our hoods, wind, and even a dog barking in the distance!

When we returned to our classroom, we added a few more winter words to our list as well as recording the outside temperature compared to our indoor temperature.  

We always enjoy having Mrs. Cronk visit us to teach us about animals and nature!   We look forward to her return one more time in April!   Thanks Mrs. Cronk!

Olivia and Tommy

After waiting TWO WEEKS due to snow days, Olivia finally has her turn to be the student of the week!  Olivia's favorite color is BLUE.   She would love to visit her grandma in Oregon someday.  Her favorite television show is Sponge Bob.  When she grows up, Olivia would like to be a dentist.  She is special because her parents love her!  She has a pet cat named Bailey and a dog named Duke.  Her very favorite book is the Bible.  Olivia likes the sport of soccer.  Her favorite food is pizza.  The very best thing about Olivia is that God loves her!

Tommy earned his second set of certificates today for Xtra Math!   He has mastered his subtraction facts within 3 seconds!   He will go back to addition now, and to earn a smiley face on the program, he will need to type in the correct response in 2 seconds!  

Tommy works very hard at Xtra Math, visiting the website every day at school and at home as well!  Did you know that Mrs. Ferrell can see who visits Xtra Math at home?   Many children should be doing this as well, because many children in our class are not making the progress that could be made with more practice at home!   Kudos to Tommy and his parents for making school an important part of his home life!  It makes a huge difference in math fact knowledge as well as other areas of the curriculum when parents take an active interest at home!   I will share your child's Xtra Math progress at conferences in March.  Hopefully I will see more children visiting this site at home so that we can view the growth on your child's chart on my computer when you come to see me!

Congratulations Tommy!