Graphing, College Shirt Day

Last week we made real object shoe graphs and Skittles graphs. After graphing using the Skittles we then made a bar type graph to show same information. We also read different versions of The Three Little Pigs and graphed our favorite book.

 

Thursday was college shirt day!

Happy Birthday to our last September birthday!
 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Alliteration

We read different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears last week. We graphed which book was our favorite. Dusty Locks and the Three Bears was by far the most favorite from the class!

We also tasted porridge on Friday and graphed our favorite flavor of porridge. Porridge with honey and cinnamon was the favorite. YUM YUM!

 

 

We enjoyed reading fiction books about bears but we also read non fiction books about bears. We brainstormed facts about bears on a circle map, organizing facts on a tree map and then wrote three sentences about bears. 

 

 

 

 

This week we also learned about Alliteration and how it is different than rhyme. We read Animal Alphabet which was all about animal alliteration sentences. We also sorted rhyming and alliteration sentences. The class created sentences about themselves with a paper plate face. They turned out very cute!!!

 

Football Game

I had the wonderful opportunity of attending a football game of one of my student's on Saturday afternoon. He played GREAT and won the game! GOOOO RAMS!

Birthdays, Award, Twenty Frames and Brain Breaks

We've already celebrated two birthdays in our classroom. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

CONGRATS to our attendance winner from not missing a day of school so far. He won a monster truck from Pride Rally this morning. His name was picked out of a basket of ALL students who had perfect attendance so far for a chance to win a prize. 

We made numbers using counters on a twenty frame. We practiced starting in the top left corner and filling it from left to right and top to bottom. 

When we work REALLY hard and start to get restless we take a "brain break". Check out one of our brain breaks from today!

Working in our Classroom

We've been working with ten frames this week....check out a few pictures of us making numbers on ten and twenty frames!

We made the number 1.

We made the number 4.

We made the number 7.

We made the number 10.

We made the number 14.

We made the number 20!!!

First Week

What a WILDLY, Wonderful first week of first grade for the 2013-2014 school year. I am so excited about the 20 new friends in my class. We have been getting to know each other through brown bag activity and games. We've enjoyed songs, poem, brain breaks, cheers/claps, read alouds, name activities, writing, math manipulatives, creating a social contract and practicing our procedures! Whew! What a fun, busy week! Enjoy your three day weekend! See you Tuesday in September!! 

             Our Class Social Contract

      "Before you speak, think and be smart. It's hard to fix a wrinkled heart" went with Cheysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Each student made a flower-- number of letters in their name=number of petals. Number of syllables=number of leaves. We created a beautiful bouquet in our classroom!

            Letters in our name graph

Names-Shortest to Longest. Vowels in red, consonants in black. 

              -at family bubble map

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes story elements chart. 

Every student and Mrs. Hay posed for a picture on the first day of first grade. 

Welcome!

Welcome to first grade! We are "WILD about learning" this year. I am so excited to begin the 2013-2014 school year. Check out our first grade schedule:
8:20-10:20       ELA/S.S.
10:20-10:50     Science
11:00-11:30     Recess
11:30-12:00     Lunch
12:00-12:30     Math
12:30-1:20       Specials
1:20-2:20         Math
2:30-3:15         Enrichment

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