Milwaukee Public Museum Field Trip

Milwaukee Museum 

We had such a wonderful day of learning together!

150 Smiles!!!!

150 Smiles!!!

The 1st grade students have been working really hard to make positive choices at school.  Throughout the school year we have earned 158 smiles so far.  That's terrific!

Today I surprised the children with a Magic School Bus Returns video and root beer floats or orange dreamsicle floats.  

1st Grade Music Concert

1st Grade Music Concert

Thank you to Mrs. Dillahunt for all of her hard work to prepare such a wonderful concert filled with great songs.

Writing Celebration

Writing Celebration 

We enjoyed sharing our nonfiction writing with Mrs. Westphal's 1st grade class.  

Spring Celebration

1st Grade Spring Celebration

                                             Playing the Egg Hunt Game

                                        Hunting for eggs with our 4th Grade buddies

                      Completing fun spring activities with our 4th grade buddies

1st Grade Black-Out Party

The first graders have worked really hard to make good choices as a whole class.  Last week, after we earned our 100^th sticker for our great behavior, we voted on how we should celebrate.  The idea that won our vote was having a “black-out party.” The children brought in small flashlights, glow sticks, and some students even wore glow in the dark clothing.  The children had a fantastic time shining their flashlights on my book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power.  They also had fun dancing to several Go Noodle songs while shining their flashlights on the ceiling and received a glow stick necklace from me to help celebrate our great choices.  Mrs. Starr even came in and joined in our fun!  

Dr. Seuss Celebration

We had such a fun-filled week celebrating Dr. Seuss and his wonderful writing.  We had a dress-up theme to match one of his books each day.  We were also lucky to have a guest reader visit our room each day to read a Dr. Seuss book to us.  

On Friday, the 1st graders met with their 4th grade buddies to read a Dr. Seuss poem, talk about rhyming words and search for them/highlight them within the poem.  It's fun to study authors and their writing craft! 

The students are currently learning about opinions and persuading a reader by writing a letter sharing their opinion about one of Dr. Seuss' books and their reasons for why you should read it.  The 1st graders are really working hard!  

"What Pet Would You Get?"

 Mr. Nelson

 Mrs. Starr

Mrs. Rupnow

 Dr. Gunderson

"Dress Like A Book Character"

 Cat in the Hat and Fox in Socks

Mr. McMahon

100th Day of School Celebration

Hip, Hip Hooray!

It's the 100th Day!

Last week Monday, the first graders celebrated their 100th day of learning.  We enjoyed many fun activities.

*We shared our ways to make the number 100.  

*We had a great time listening to stories which focused on the 100th day of school.

*We worked on various skip counting patterns to reach the number 100.

*We completed a hidden picture puzzle by solving math facts.

*We completed a fun 100 Day graphing activity.  This activity also helped us to review 

 shape names and color words.

We really had a great day!  😊

1st Grade Celebration

The first graders have worked really hard to earn stickers for great behavior and good choices.  As a class we have earned 75 smiles.  Wow!  Mrs. Rau, Mrs. Griffith, and I celebrated with the kids by having a special Olympic themed Makerspace exploring time.  The children were able to use critical thinking skills, communication, collaboration, and creativity to build a luge run, a ski hill, and program a mouse to find the letters USA.  

I have included a few photos on the blog, however you can also click on the link below to see all of the great snapshots taken during our special activity.  The kids had a blast and so did we! 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/19g5OY1JHJpq3GCw1

Programming Mice

Building a Luge Run

Building a Ski Hill