Spring Celebration

What a great time we had Thursday with our egg hunt. It only took 20 minutes to find 432 eggs. Here are some quick pictures of the hunt.

Earth Day Celebration

First Graders Love Kevin Henkes

What a great day we had on Friday celebrating one of our favorite authors - Kevin Henkes! We started off our day making purple plastic purses with some nifty ties for the boys. We also made some movie star glasses! They all turned out great. Then we went and had cheesy snacks while we watched a Kevin Henkes video of three of his books. Next we did all kinds of fun worksheets about his books. Our last station was bingo. We had a blast finding different answers on our bingo boards about his books and his life. We could have played forever. For lunch we came back to our room and had cheesy pizza and chips - our favorite. For our afternoon we had a great performance of Reader's Theatre for all our parents and one set of kindergarteners. The kids did a great job and the performance went off perfectly. Thank you to all the parents who have supported us through this 5 week unit of study. The kids have learned so much. Here are some highlights from our day.

Reader's Theatre

Friday is quickly approaching and we are very excited for our Kevin Henkes Celebration Day. Just a reminder that you are invited to join us for our Reader's Theatre performance in the media center at 1:15. We look forward to seeing you.

Kevin Henkes Author Study

Throughout the author study we have been reading as many of his books as we can. One of the great things through this unit are retellings. We practice these through many different ways. Making puppets and retelling stories with them is so much fun for the kids. They love being creative and putting their own thoughts into the puppets. They were great! In class we have used them to do retellings with their friends. These stories are the same ones that many of them have done a retelling on in Writer's Workshop as well. Here are a couple of our friends with their puppets.

Computer Math Games

Looking for some fun games for your child to reinforce skills we have been working on in class? Check out these websites that focus on number words and time.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=donofrio-numberwords

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=donofrio-numberwords2

text to graphic match(o'clock): http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html

hour and half hour: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html

15 min intervals: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec2.html

5 min intervals: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec3.html

Barnyard Bingo

Did you hear about the Bingo Party on Thursday? All students that met their reading goal for the 2nd 9 weeks were treated to Barnyard Bingo with Mrs. Phillips. Each student was given a bingo board with farm related pictures. Then our own Mrs. Phillips would call out the name of the pictures. Each child walked out a winner with some chosen prize. The kids had a great time and even wrote Mrs. Phillips thank you cards for the great party. Here are some highlights: