1st grade.

I realized the other day that I haven't really posted anything school-related on here. At all.
So here is a glimpse of some of the fun we've had in 1st grade so far this year...

My classroom didn't have number words posted anywhere. And I didn't realize it until I wanted the kids to be able to use them. No time to buy any, so we just made some. The letters were all cut apart and the kids had to glue them back in order and make the number...

Our daily lunch count/attendance... (3 trays with spray paint, some scrapbook letter stickers, buttons with magnets glued to the back and some number stickers)

Field trip to a nearby zoo...

We went at the very beginning of October and it was CHILLY that day!!

It was a whole school field trip, but we were all in different sections at different times. I ran into Lawson at lunch, though.

We didn't tour the whole zoo, but had different stations where college students had prepared little lessons/activities for them.

We've been doing Daily 5 for a couple months now and the kids are loving it... 

Exploring liquids in science... (this picture makes me laugh, because it looks like they have laptops. They're just their science notebooks... propped up together.) 

Building towers in science... (this was the end of our unit on solids)

I spent hours and hours trying to level some of the books in my classroom. The Sunshine books were easy to level, but I don't have that many of them. The books with our curriculum have been more of a pain to level.

Writing about our animals on Stuffed Animal Day...

More exploring in science...

I like our new science curriculum, but the lessons take a l.o.n.g. time. It's hard to find 45 minutes to an hour for science in first grade.

Exploring rocks... 

Veteren's Day Assembly...

Thanksgiving Feast...

So thankful for these two brothers in Lawson's class. There's a whole lot of ornery in this picture...

Playing "Go Fish for 10's..."

Singing at the local bank...

Journal writing...

Making books together...

Hunting for the Gingerbread Man and comparing stories...

Informational writing...

I love 1st grade phonetic spelling...

These were our Christmas gifts for parents this year. Fingerprint snowmen ornaments.

They turned out super cute! (But next time I won't let them use purple for the background. The snowmen showed up great, but the details they drew with Sharpies got a bit lost on the dark back ground.)

My kiddos are enjoying a long 3 day weekend... Monday we're off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. (Kids are off... teachers get to spend our day in inservice. Woo-hoo!)
I think MLK is one of my favorite things to teach about each year. They get so fired up about the unfairness of it all. My school this year is much less diverse than my previous school, so there were only 2 examples in the whole school for "kids with darker skin." Luckily, they still got the point. =)