Wemberly Worried...and So Did Some First Graders!

Today we read the book Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes.

In the book, a young mouse worries about...everything!  She worries about cracks in the wall, the safety of the swings and slide at the playground, and if her parents will still be there when she wakes up each morning.  She worries about a tree falling on her house and snakes in the radiator...but her newest worry is school!  She's headed to school for the first time and has many worries!  But after she spends some time there with her mom, she makes a new friend and isn't worried any longer.  Each child in our classroom made a poster of Wemberly and wrote about Wemberly's worries.  Then each shared something they worry about, too.  The following are just a few of the beautiful portraits of Wemberly.  They're even better in person!  You'll find them on the wall at school next week!

Fantastic Friday!

Today was Fantastic Friday in our classroom!  I call most Fridays "Fantastic Friday" just to boost morale at the end of what can sometimes seem like a long week for first graders!  Actually, we had a really fun and pretty busy week.

On Wednesday morning, two students from CVU (who are part of an athletic leadership team) came to our classroom to read to the class.  Jack and George both play a variety of sports at CVU and knew several children from soccer camps.  They volunteered to come one Wednesday morning each month to read to us.  This was the first week and they read a favorite Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who.  The class was mesmerized by our new readers!   Here the class enjoys the book while Jack takes a turn reading.

Thursday was an even busier day...yet another group of CVU students visited!  This time it was the public speaking classes whose first assignment is to memorize a children's poem and then perform it for our first grade classes.  The group of roughly 20 students arrived right after PE and stayed for about half an hour.  The class was startled at times (some poems were a little scary) and giggled when they poems were funny!  They thought the poem where a monster eats the teacher was funny!  Hmph?!  This is one of the (slightly nervous!) CVU students performing for the first graders.

Enjoy the weekend!

Reading, Writing, and Other Stuff!

I love the look of concentration on their faces as they work...

Popsicle Day!

Today was twin pop day for first graders at HCS!  Our very first math unit has us practicing counting by 2s.  The medium the program uses is twin pops.  As an interesting side note...it was challenging FINDING twin pops in a grocery store!  Luckily, the cafeteria can order them!

You'll see some very sticky, but happy faces!