Fantastic First Week of First Grade

We had a fantastic first week of school. Here are some pictures of what we did.

To help with our first day jitters (just like in the story we read) we had some Jitter Juice. It was made with teacher magic. 

After reading "David Goes to School" we wrote our own school rules. Then we made a cute David to go with them. It was a great listening and following directions activity. We can't wait to show them to our families at Open House.

We also practiced one of our Math Stations this week. It is called Roll and Color. It is a fun station that helps us with math fluency.

Buddy Hands is a math game that also helps us with fact fluency. We play with a partner. Ask your first grader to teach you how to play.

We finished the week making new friends and learning more about them by going on a Friend Scavenger Hunt.  We didn't get finished so we will do this again next week. Making new friends and learning about them is so much fun !

Here are our individual pictures from the First Day of School.

I hope you all had as much fun as I did! See you Monday. 

Ms. Gilbert

That's a Wrap!

I really cannot believe the year is over. I want to thank each and every student and their families for one of the best years of my teaching career. We had an AWESOME class and I enjoyed each and every one of the 180 days with you!  (I didn't want Wednesday to end!) I hope you all enjoyed the year as much as I did!

Here are some pictures from our last week of school.  First up.....Bubble Day! We learned a LOT about the science of bubbles. (And had fun in the process!)

We watched a video of Steve Spangler putting kids inside a bubble and wondered if it could really be done.  Mrs. Fischer, Miss Cleckler and I just HAD to try it. We were amazed at how well it worked...the pictures don't show how cool it really was! I wasn't able to get a picture of everybody, but everyone from all three classes got a chance to be inside a bubble!

After learning about the history of bubble gum (and how to get it out of your hair if there is an accident) we attempted a bubble blowing contest.  Blowing a bubble is much harder than it looks....we could use more practice! :-)

Again, thank you for sharing your first and second grade year with me. I will miss you all.  I hope you have a fantastic summer!!

Silly picture...

Created with Padlet

Ms. Gilbert

Plants

I forgot to post pictures from part of our plant unit. Sorry there are not very many...we were really busy and engaged!

Ms. Gilbert

Pictures to Share!

Here are a few pictures from this week.
Monday was Vehicle Day! Technician Tom, Lifeguard Shawn, Bus Driver David and the firefighters are going to love the Thank You letters we wrote today!

In Math we are working on fractions.  First grade is learning halves and fourths, while second grade is learning about halves, thirds and fourths. We used Play-Doh today to create plane shapes and partition them into fractions. Parents- ask your student what PARTITION means!

Ms. Gilbert

Spring Has Sprung!

We have been busy since Spring Break!

In Science, we have been studying living and nonliving.  The second graders created a Popplet on the iPads.  They used their creations to show what they know to the first graders!

In Math, we are working on data and graphing....pictographs, bar graphs and line plots!

Don't forget to send in those tissues...pretty please!
2nd graders--get your field trip permission slips in!
Ms. Gilbert

Force, Motion, and lots of fun!

We are very busy trying to wrap a few units up before Spring Break. Can you believe it is almost Spring Break?!?!?!?!

In science we have been studying Force and Motion. We did a lot of fun  investigations to help us understand the concepts of energy, force, motion and friction.  These investigations also gave us some extra practice of the recent math skill of measurement.

Last week was Dr. Seuss' birthday!  We read lots of Dr. Seuss stories and will continue to read more this week to help with our ELA skills.  We wrote letters to The Cat in the Hat telling him our opinion of him letting those Things in the house. (Then we made Grade 1 & Grade 2 Things to hang up with our letters.)

Second grade used Dr. Seuss stories to find examples of alliteration.  Then we did a carousel activity to write sentences with alliteration.  A carousel activity is when each group adds to what the group before them did.   It was such a big hit, first and second grade will be doing another carousel activity before Spring Break!

February was Black History Month.  We read a story about Ruby Bridges and wrote letters to her.  We thought she was VERY brave when she was a little girl.  

We also released our Painted Lady Butterflies.  Watching the life cycle of the butterflies was so much fun and tied in perfectly with the science unit we will begin after Spring Break!

See you Monday!
Ms. Gilbert