Thursday, October 27, 2011

Red Ribbon Week

In honor of Red Ribbon Week, our students have recited a "drug free pledge" several times now! We have also signed our names twice, signifying that we will:
stay in school, make the world a better place, keep our dreams alive, help others, and keep ourselves drug free!
Here we are signing our name to the large 1st grade pledge, and our own classroom pledge.
We are so proud of your great choices first graders, we have high expectations for you! :)





Star Students In October

Here are our Star Students of the Week for the month of October:

Congratulations Bella, who was our star student for the week of October 7th...

Congratulations Alex, who was our star student for the week of October 14th...

Congratulations Darryan, who was our star student for the week of October 21st...

Keep up the good work! We can't wait to see who will be our star students next month!

Weekly Homework - Week #11

This weeks skills words are high frequency and rhyming words:

1. does
2. into
3. he
4. this
5. water
6. frog
7. dog
8. log
9. rock
10. sock

Remember that there is no school for students tomorrow... so have a nice long weekend and we'll see you on Monday! :)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Using Quotation Marks in our Narrative Stories

We introduced "talking marks" (or quotation marks) around the dialogue in our stories this week. Bella did a great job incorporating dialogue into her story, so we put her story up on the smart board and went through it all together. This way, we could decide where to add the "talking marks". Here we are at work...


As Bella read her story on the microphone line by line, we decided where to add the "talking marks" around her dialogue...




Friday, October 21, 2011

On our own Macbooks today!

We had a great time learning how to use our own laptops today. We all learned how to log in with our own username and password and how to go to www.starfall.com to play a learning game together. We did a great job! Here we are at work...






Weekly Homework - Week #10

This weeks skills words are high frequency and rhyming words:

1. how
2. many
3. on
4. why
5. they
6. fix
7. mix
8. six
9. king
10. ring

Homework is due next THURSDAY, since there will be no school for students on Friday 10/28. Have a great weekend!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Beauclerc Fun Run Today


We started off our Fun Run today by doing some exercises/stretching... then we were off!!!




Jasmin was as fast as a gazelle today... look at her go!!!


Andre was keeping a very good pace...


Damien is totally in the zone...


Good job Jiwon & Otiyanna!




"D.J. Runs-Alot" was back today with his CRAZY hair! Thanks for the great music while we ran!


Darryan and Jordan A. were giving it their best!


Thanks for putting this all together for us Coach Dudjak! We had a great time!







A big thanks to all the parents that were able to come and help out. We had a great time and hopefully raised a lot of money for our school!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The "Counting Up" Strategy

We learned a fun new game in math, called "How Many Am I Hiding?" This helps with our math strategy of counting up.
Each pair of students started off with 5 connecting cubes. One student had to hide some of them behind their back. When the other student opened their eyes, they counted how many cubes they saw, then counted up in their head to 5, to find out how many were hiding.
Once they get good at this game, we'll increase the number of cubes being used. You can play this game at home with any kind of manipulatives (like pennies, paper clips, Cheerios, etc.)
Here we are at work...


Elona counts 3 cubes on the floor... so she's going to put 3 in her head, then count on her fingers up to 5 to find out how many are hiding behind Destiny's back...


Essa is counting 3 cubes that he sees, so he will put 3 in his head, and count up on his fingers to 5, to find how many cubes are behind Demaria's back...


Sanem is counting 3 cubes that she sees, and will put that 3 in her head and count up to 5 to find out how many are hiding behind Alex's back...


Andre sees 1 cube, so he is going to put 1 in his head, and count up to 5 to find out how many are hiding behind Paige's back...


Reighna counts 2 cubes that she can see, so now she'll put 2 in her head and count up to 5 to find out how many are hiding behind Addison's back...


Chris is hiding 3 cubes behind his back while Bells closes her eyes...


Asia sees 3 cubes in Anthony's hand... how may is he hiding behind his back?


Gamari counts 3 cubes in Mya's hand... how many are hiding behind her back? You'll have to put that 3 in your head Garmari and count up to five! :)

Great job counting up everyone!!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Weekly Homework - Week #9

This weeks skills words are high frequency and rhyming words.

1. went
2. walk
3. did
4. saw
5. me
6. it
7. sit
8. hit
9. pick
10. kick

Have a great weekend! :)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Sequencing Events In Narrative Writing

In writers workshop today, we were focusing on how good authors have sequenced events in their stories. We read the book, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and then we did a fun activity on the smart board to practice sequencing the story events. Here we are at work...




Sequencing the days in the story...




Now we are sequencing the correct food the caterpillar ate on each day...


We are learning how to become great narrative authors!


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Nine Peas and Carrots

On the smartboard today, we were coming up with as many ways as possible to have a total of 9 peas and carrots on our plate. There are so many combinations of 9 that we came up with!





5 peas + 4 carrots = 9

8 carrots + 1 pea = 9

How many ways can you make 9?