We love the zoo!

Here are our pictures from our zoo field trip. We had a beautiful day. Thank you to all our chaperones.

Stay Tuned

We have lots of pictures from all our recent events. Stay tuned - posts will be completed by the end of the weekend.

Did you see that tricky leprechaun?

Well if you were in our first grade classroom on March 16th you would have seen him sneaking by our window! The Friday before spring break brought lots of commotion to our quiet classroom. All our students brought in their traps ready to catch a leprechaun. But all we got was a big mess. Our day started out with a note from the quickest leprechaun of all - Mike O'Leary. We don't know where the note came from. It just showed up under our door that morning while we were working. He said we wouldn't be able to catch him. The kids thought we could. We set our traps before we left for lunch (we heard that they only come when you are not in the room). When we returned from lunch the room was still perfect. But when we went out to recess - that sneaky leprechaun came in and messed up the room. He broke our traps, pottied in the toilet, left green footprints on the floor and tables, and threw paper everywhere. As much as we were upset by all this (especially since we didn't catch him), he did leave us a note with some cookies and green milk. He also left us special coins and green mint candies. While we were cleaning up we looked out the window and who do you think we saw? Yep - that sneaky, yet quick, Mike O'Leary running off. Maybe we'll catch him next year.

A Great Day of Dr. Seuss

On Friday we celebrated the birthday of the great Dr. Seuss! What a fun day reading books and playing games with words from his texts. To top it off we had lots of fun activities and fun treats. Here are soem of the exciting things from our day:

Math centers

Last week we began our new Math Stations. This is a time kids can play games they have learned through Math Investigations or complete activities that reinforce skills that we have been working on. Here are some of our new math stations:





*** skip counting by 5's and 10's












***making 10














***roll and record























***number concentration

The 100th day of school

100th day on PhotoPeach

The Science behind our toys

As we finish up our unit on Force and Motion we spent an afternoon exploring how many familiar toys move with push and pulls. Students took turns playing with each toy and deciding how they moved. We had fun exploring yo-yo's, trucks, paddle balls, and mini-skateboards pushed and pulled. Take a look around your house and see all the things you can find that push and pull.