Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

What a fun week! Our Stations, Reading Workshop, and Theme have all been centered around one of my most favorite authors...Dr. Seuss.

Literacy Stations have been a blast thanks to Mrs. Oakes' Dr. Seuss Lessons. I use a lot of Mrs. Oakes' units and resources in our class. They are absolutely AMAZING! If you are a primary teacher, I highly suggest you check them out. She is also the author of the Fabulous in First blog.

 

We also celebrated Wacky Wednesday on Leap Day.

 

Today students worked with Horton Hatches the Egg. Tomorrow is Bartholomew and Oobleck.  I will be sure to post photos this weekend. I want close with our Dr. Seuss greetings. This Dr. Seuss camera app was introduced to me by Mrs. Oakes. The kids couldn't get enough of it today!

Aren't they priceless?!!

Let's Catch Up!

So sorry! It has been awhile. I was debating whether or not to post these photos, but there's so much great stuff going on in Rm 105, I had to share with you. This is what we did last week. In addition to our unit on Presidents and American Symbols, we worked with the number 10, long e, and Literary Nonfiction. Schoolhouse Symphony came to visit too!

Here we are at Schoolhouse Symphony.

We worked on Nonfiction using books on Barack Obama, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.

In Math, our focus was the number 10.

Here we are playing How Many am I Hiding.

 This game was a favorite: Tens Go Fish.

We also learned about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and American Symbols. We read various books, watched biographies, and completed several activities from Deanna Jump's America unit.

Check our our portraits of our 1st and 16th presidents!

Students worked hard in cooperative groups to study their assigned American symbol.

Check out these students sharing their Literary Nonfiction!

 We are really blossoming in First Grade!

This Little Piggy Handprints

Isn't this adorable?!!

These are made right here in Cincinnati...actually closer, Loveland! I think that they would make wonderful gifts and keepsakes. She even does pets! Here are a few more examples.

Here is the website for more information or to book an appointment.

Valentine's Day Party

Oh what a day! I love Valentine's Day. We had a great time completing activities and games. Here are some highlights.

In the morning we made funny Valentines. This idea came from Mrs. Mullins at The Inspired Apple.

It says "_________________ mustache you a question.  Will you be my Valentine?"

These are currently displayed in the hallway and getting a TON of compliments!

We also read the story Love, Splat and wrote about love. The responses are just precious.

Love is...when my mom makes me breakfast in the morning.

Love is when my friends play video games with me.

Here are a few other responses.

Love is..

when my mom hugs me when I cry.

when I get hurt and my dog licks me.

when my mom and dad give me kisses and hugs.

I could just cry!

We also made Valentine's Day holders and passed out Valentines.

We had a BLAST at the party. Check out us in action.
We made rings!

We made Valentine's Day words.

We played Pin the Heart on the Bear!

And there was corn hole!

(I know I have photos. That was the station I worked! I do not know why they didn't show up. I will reload some.)

Here we are all together. Look at those hearts! It was quite funny.

Many students dressed for the occasion. Check out these shoes.

Thank you to all the parents who assisted at the party and a special thanks to our room parent for planning the party. It was a huge hit!