Swimming and Splashing at the YMCA

We have a great opportunity each year with the YMCA as our neighbor to take our class for Swim Gym.  This is an hour long session of swim in place of our normal gym class.

Some kids are always nervous about what to expect but by the end they're swimming like fish!

Most of the pictures were blurry or action shots but I did get a few!

Newsletter for March 21st

Happy Character Day!!

Here we are!!  It's Character Day at our school and we have some amazing costumes.

We had made Wild Thing masks just incase someone didn't have a costume.  So of course I had to take a picture of me TRYING to tame my Wild Things!!

Can you guess who some of our characters were today?

Guess who I met today?  I met Clifford my favorite character as a child!!  Clifford books were my ABSOLUTE favorite books to read.  I dreamed of being Emily Elizabeth and even considered being her today but knew the dark brown hair just wouldn't work.  We were able to get a group picture with him too.

Students completed the worksheet below on the character they were today.

In other news, Silas and his brother set a trap with fake coins at their house in hopes of catching a leprechaun.  This is what they caught! Sooo, some poor leprechaun is running around without his pants!

Today during computer lab the class was working so quietly that I didn't even notice that Kaylee had been working on her computer like this!!  It was quite funny that she didn't say anything so I snapped a quick pic.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Lucky Leprechaun visited us today and left quite a mess.  He wrote all over my morning message with green marker, left shamrocks on the floor, and some how got out of the trap we set.  He did leave behind a note and some treasures.

I captured Ayva's reaction just as the box was lifted.  Priceless.

I had one student set up his own trap before he left school Wednesday but Lucky was able to even escape his.

We wrote directions on how to make a shamrock shake.  This afternoon we enjoyed some leprechaun activities and some DE-licious shakes.

Of course I have no pictures of the shakes because I was tending to the blender and making them for 3 first grade classes.

This week students created WANTED Signs and we hung them up around school.  I love how unique each leprechaun is.

They also completed some rainbow writing.  Students learned what a simile is and wrote some sentences.

Students completed writing on what makes them special.  Here are some examples.

Hope you had a great St. Paddy's Day!!

Newsletter for the Week of March 13th

Our "Sun"dae Party is Friday!!

Please make sure your child has completed their reading to enjoy a sundae on Friday!!  

Newsletter for the Week of March 7th

If you'd like to donate Clorox Wipes to our class, we sure could use them.  Thanks!!

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess

Happy birthday Dr. Suess.

I LOVE when I have those rare moments of when I hold up a book and NO ONE in the class has heard it.  That's what happened when I read the latest book by Dr. Suess today.

Students wrote their opinion on what pet they would want if they could pick ANY animal.  Once completed they completed some artwork to go with their writing.  Here is their work!

You could also read Kids Make Terrible Pets and do a comparison.  My students thought this book was a hoot.

                                                     

We created these today and will complete some writing with Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Here's their finished work.

Silas wants to fly a cargo plane.

Autumn wants to go to Florida.

Marlee wants to be a cheerleader.

Gabby wants to be a horseback rider.

Will wants to be a basketball player.

Sofia wants to study ocean animals.

Kaylee wants to have a zoo!

Colby wants to be an author.

Marcus wants to be a dirt bike rider.