Special Person of the week

      Our special person of the week lives in a light blue house with her mom, her dad, her sister and her brother.  She has two dogs named Sophia and Pudge, and a cat named Midnight.  She also has fish.  Her favorite color is purple because some flowers are purple.  Her favorite subject is Gym because she likes playing snowball.  Her favorite TV show is ‘Swamp People’, and her favorite books are about animals.  She likes to eat pancakes and mac and cheese.  She likes to have water balloon fights. She has a swimming pool and likes to swim.   She feels happy when she is with her family.  When she grows up she wants to be a Zoo Keeper or a Police Woman because they help people.  If she could go anywhere in the world, she would go to St. Maarten or Chicago.  She thinks the best thing about her is that she wants to help people.  She feels she is special because God loves her.

Learning about Water Safety

Waiting at Northwestern for our Water Safety instruction.

Getting ready to learn to bob our heads under the water.

We bobbed 5 times to the right and 5 times to the left.

Learning to flutter kick and blow bubbles.

Jumping off the diving board.

Mrs. Stites' class went to the pool at Northwestern high school to learn water safety.  We learned to do bobs, front glide, back float, flutter kick, free style swim and we will learn to do the back stroke.  After our lessons some children went off the diving board.  Fun, fun, fun!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Mrs. Stites' class!

Special Student of the Week

     Our special student of the week lives in a red brick house with his 3 brothers, his dad and his mom.  He had a dog Abby and now has a dog Miley.  He used to have bunnies, but now has chickens.  His favorite color is blue is because of the Colts.  His favorite subject is Recess because they get to run.  His favorite TV show is ‘Criminal Minds’, and his favorite books are Indian books.  He likes to eat bacon and eggs and pizza.  He likes to play with Jace.  He feels happy when he he can go to his best friend Jace’s house.  When he grows up, he wants to be a cop because he wants to have a pair of hand cuffs.  If he could go anywhere in the world, he’d go home.  He feels he is special because he is himself!   He feels the best thing about him is that he has a juicy brain!

Celebrating Dr. Seuss

We made 'Cat in the Hats' using a small donut, white icing, M&M's for the eyes and nose, chocolate sprinkles for the whiskers, cherry and mint Life savers for the hat!  Fun to make and even more fun to eat!

Each of us made a 'Cat in the Hat' hat and we are showing some of the books we read.  Lots of rhyming!

Yummy learning center about following directions.

At the graphing center, the children guessed which Dr. Seuss book they would get most often. Next, they took turns pulling out Dr. Seuss books from a Cat in the Hat bag, and graphed the results.

I wonder which book will be chosen most often?

Fun and delicious Cat in the Hats!

Yummy!

This game of strategy gave the children a change to roll a die and then either fill in stripes to finish their hat, or block someone else from completing their hat.  Big decisions.  Lots of fun.

Making a Dr. Seuss hat with Mrs. Myers.

Dr. Finkler shows dinosaur bones

Anna's father Dr. Finkler brought his dinosaur specimens from IUK to share with the first grade children.  He brought a footprint, some skulls, a replica of an egg, along with other dinosaur parts... including some dinosaur poo!  The children enjoyed his visit.  He was very interesting and we learned more about the different kinds of dinosaurs! 

Valentine's Day party

     Our class celebrated Valentine's day with a Valentine's party.  We made clown sacks and put our names on their hats.  Next, we put them in alphabetical order along the chalk board.  Then we brought in Valentine's and mailed them.  This was good practice for writing our friends' names and then reading the names we wrote.  We found out we all have a bunch of people who care about us.  What a day filled with love!

Special Person of the Week

          

     Our special person of the week lives in a yellow trailer house with pink flowers with his dad, his mom and his sister.  He has 3 dogs named Miles, Dutch, and Pepper.  His favorite color is red because Christmas is his favorite holiday and Santa’s suit is red.  His favorite subject is Reading because it makes you smarter and you can know all the words.  His favorite TV show is’ Garfield and Friends’, and his favorite book is the Bible.  He likes to eat pizza and chocolate chip cookies.  He likes to watch movies.  He feels happy when he gets to spend the night at a friends’ house.  When he grows up, He wants to be a policeman because he wants to catch the bad people for our country.  If he could go anywhere in the world, he would go to Florida because his sister is there and he misses her so much.  He likes to play football.  He feels he is special because he loves God.  He feels the best thing about him is that he is funny.

Learning about Teeth

      Our school nurse coordinated with a local dentist's office to teach the first grades how to properly brush their teeth.  They gave us lots of hints about how to choose foods that are good for our teeth.  Each first grader went home with a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and other goodies. 

Celebrating Groundhog Day

       Happy Grounghog day!  The groundhog saw his shadow, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter!

100th day of school Puppet Show

       The Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade children at Howard Elementary culminated the 100th day of school activities by watching a puppet show.  The puppets told facts, number stories and told jokes about the number 100.  After the play the children danced to a song that counts up to 100.  They would count 10 numbers and then do a fun action.  Afterwards, they watched a movie about Zero the Hero.  What a fun way to celebrate the 100th day of school.

Collecting cans for the 100th day of school

   The Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders at Howard Elementary wanted to try to collect 100 cans to celebrate the 100th day of school.  The children brought in 301 cans which will be donated to a local food pantry!  The children at Howard Elementary really care about others!  They are awesome!

More 100th day activities in first grade

Our snack bag filled with 100 things to eat!

The children counted out 100 pieces of 10 different things to eat.  10 of each item equals 100!

The children rolled a die and then had to mark off that number of squares.  The goal was to see who got to 100 first.

We are writing to 1000, 100 numbers at a time.

Reading books about the 100th day of school.

Writing 100 words.

Continuing writing to 1000. (It will take us more than 1 week.)

Some children are getting close to having their whole board filled.  Roll the dice again.

Reading books about 100.

Mrs. Stites is helping kids write and read 100 words.       

            The children in Mrs. Stites' class participated in learning stations all about 100.  The children gathered 100 pieces of food to eat.  They took 10 pieces of each item. (10 times 10 equals 100!)  They played a game by rolling dice and marking off that many squares on a 100's chart.  The first child to get their whole chart filled was the winner. We continued writing to 1000.  The children work on writing 100 numbers each week.  That helps them see the patterns in counting.  They read several books all dealing with the 100th day of school.  They also wrote 100 words.  The children were pleased to discover how easily they could read the words. (They are learning a lot more than they realize!)  What fun learning centers!  Lots of work.  Lots of fun!