FUN-O-Ween!

Fun-O-Ween was just that...FUN! As you'll see in the pictures, there were lots of smiles and laughs! Our class began the afternoon with the bean bag toss! You'll see the targets (which were almost as much fun as the actual tossing!) and smiling, costumed faces as they waited for a turn. After bean bag toss, we headed to "Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin." Children were given a nose, a quick spin, and then they marched up to pin a nose. Then we marched down to Mrs. Fay's music room where the beginning band played music for freeze dance. The first graders danced so quickly that many of my pictures were a blur! After freeze dance, we headed to the library story corner where Ms. Stanley read us two spooky stories-in the dark! Yikes! Next our class played Ghost In the Graveyard...which is just a fancy name for Red Light/Green Light. They are very speedy on their knees! After that we went to play musical chairs. It turns out that our class didn't even need to take away any chairs to make this game fun! Our last station was right back in our room coloring Halloween pictures! While they colored we used the fish and underwater explorer props to take some pictures! The last picture is a group shot of the first grade teachers in our book character costumes! I hope you had as much fun that night trick-or-treating! BOO!

Peeling Apples!

Yesterday your children helped the PiE group peel apples for the Harvest Dinner! PiE is our parent group and PiE stands for Partners in Education. To prepare the apple crisp, PiE parent Doug Stewart asked student helpers to wash and peel apples.  Some students washed while others learned how to put the apples on the fancy peeling machines! As the machines peel, they also slice and core! Who knew peeling apples could be so much fun?

Word Sorts

Each day your child participates in a Fundations lesson. Fundations is our phonics/spelling program. Our whole group lessons include letter/sound review, sound dictation, word dictation and sentence dictation. In addition, proper letter formation is taught and encouraged. Each week your child is given a word sort. Children cut out their word cards, read each card and then sort them according to the spelling pattern being taught. Different groups of kids have different sorts based on student needs. The activities are the same for all, though. Each day students read the words and sort. Depending on the day, children may complete a Draw and Label activity or play a game with their words or read a passage similar words.

Here are some pictures of children working with their sort cards!