Classroom gym time

Each week we have a third gym class taught by the classroom teacher.  Today we used www.gonoodle.com and the students watched a video to run 100M hurdles, and followed a dance video.  They had a great time and got their heart rates up!

Insects, Insects....kids love them!

Jared...don't eat the caterpillar! HA!

Lots of screams while our little furry friends crawled on arms!

Lots of the boys wanted to hold them....:-)

BOOK IT October-March

Dear, Parents!

Did you know reading is the ultimate super power!  And with the help of the BOOK IT! Program, our class will be honing super reading skills over the next six months (Oct 1-March 31).

The mission of the BOOK IT! Program is to encourage more reading outside of the classroom.  The program is easy and fun!  Your child has the opportunity to earn Reading Award Certificates by meeting our daily reading goal of 20 minutes a day.   A SHEET will come home at the start of each month with a calendar.  Simply color in the picture for every 20 minutes you read at home each day of the month. (If you miss a day, try to double up on another day to catch up!) The Reading Award Certificates can be redeemed at Pizza Hut where your child will receive a BOOK IT award and a free, one-topping Personal Pan Pizza. 

GUESS WHAT!  You are already doing some of this! Your Guided Reading minutes/books may count towards your 20 minutes!

DID YOU KNOW? A child spends 900 hours in school a year.  A child spends 7800 hours OUTSIDE of school a year.  Which teacher has the BIGGER influence? 

Daily Lit Booklets

You should have seen these booklets come home over the past 2 weeks.  This book is called our Daily Literacy Practice Booklet.  We work in these each day during our Word Work/Spelling time.  We use this book each week to practice many skills:

• letters sounds
• letter blends
• reading/practicing sight words & using them in a sentence
• Rhyming
• Writing/Grammar 
• identifying complete sentences
• segmenting words
• Isolating sounds in words
• Comprehension of short passages 
  
   

Our Painted Lady Catepillars have arrived!

Our Painted Lady caterpillars have arrived to our classroom!!!!!  The kids were so excited to see and meet them:-) We will study and observe them over the next few weeks as they move through the stages of their Life Cycle.  (eggs-larva (caterpillar)-pupa (chrysalis)-adult (butterfly)

Science-Insect stages!

 We will continue to study/compare the LIFE CYCLE OF AN INSECT.  We look at the Darkling beetle, butterfly, and various other insects that students find around us!!!!

We found this little "creature" in our classroom.  Hmmmm any guesses as to what it is??

Our little Clara brought this Walkingstick in to share with the Class!

Here we are looking at the 4 stages of an Insect!  Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult

Milwaukee Public Museuem Field Trip

All 1st graders will be going on a Field Trip to the Milwaukee Public Museum on Friday, November 7th!  Mark your calendars!  Parents are WELCOME!

We will also be able to go into the Butterfly Garden at the Museum!!!  It will be a PERFECT wrap-up to our INSECT unit:-) You will have a stroll through a lush, tropical mini-garden. Hear the murmur of a cascading waterfall and the soothing sounds of tranquil music. We will watch as exotic butterflies emerge from their chrysalises and sip nectar right before your eyes!!!