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

Please become a follower of the blog and check back for weekly updates. I am looking forward to a WILDLY WONDERFUL year.

1st grade picnic and last day of school!

I've enjoyed our year together. I'm going to miss y'all!  Here are some pictures from our picnic and the last day of school. Have a safe and fun summer! Come visit me in second grade.

We enjoyed popsicles on the last day of school. 

Donuts with Dad and Field Day

Yesterday we enjoyed donuts with our dads for an early Father's Day. We shared our writing about our dad and a greatest dad award.

Yesterday we also enjoyed field day! We participated in 10 events with a couple that got us wet. We had FUN! 

Reminder: Tuesday is first grade picnic from 12-2pm. Send a sack lunch, water, towel, appropriate toys (sport balls, frisbee, sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, etc). 

Last Days of School

We've been popping a balloon at the end of each day for a special surprise/activity inside. We started with 13 days of school left. 

We also made an owl to go on our bulletin board "Hoot Hoot Hooray we're ready for first grade", we wrote about our favorite things from first grade for our "we've had a ball in first grade" and we wrote about our summer plans on giant sunglasses and had fun creating ourselves wearing the sunglasses.