Cultural Day!

Today, we celebrated Cultural Day. This year, the theme was Around the World in 80 Days based on the book. Before Cultural Day, the students researched different modes of transportation or different cities around the world. We learned about the Horse and Buggy. Today, we did lots of different activities. We had a science presentation about electricity, did some activities in the room, ate lots of food from around the world, did some martial arts, yoga, and Pilates, played games in the gym and watched some Chinese dancers. Overall, it was a good day.

Mid-March Madness!

We have been keeping busy here in first grade. For St. Patrick's Day, we wore green to celebrate. We also have been celebrating Disability Awareness Month throughout the month of March. Today, we had a special presentation by ICAN. This organization helps train service dogs and match them with individuals with disabilities. The kids loved seeing the dogs.

Happy Pi Day!

We have been preparing to celebrate Pi Day coming up tomorrow. We kept things simple here in first grade. We focused on how we use symbols in math to tell us to do different things. We talked about the symbol for pi and how it relates to circles. We read a story called The Dot about a little girl who is inspired to make beautiful circles and dots. We made lots of circles to make one big circle. The kids had a great time making the dots and then putting them together to make a huge circle. We are ready for Pi Day tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Lily!

Today we celebrated Lily's birthday. She brought in the book Lilly's Big Day by Kevin Henkes. We thought the book was very appropriate for whose birthday we were celebrating. The kids loved that the book had her name in it. It is a funny story about a little mouse who wants to be the flower girl at her teacher's wedding. She becomes the flower girl assistant and ends up saving the wedding when the original flower girl gets stage freight. It is a cute story and the kids really enjoyed it.

March Activities

We are only a handful of days into March and we have been super busy. We have been working hard on our measuring and we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday.

To practice our measuring, we have been using cubes and rulers to measure all kind of items.

We also celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with Dr. Seuss themed reading stations. We played a Dr. Seuss board game, played Dr. Seuss games on the Smart Board, made Cat in the Hat word family hats, and played Dr. Seuss memory.

We will see what else March has in store. I know it is going to be very busy and very fun.