Life is Busy in 1st Grade!

We have had more fun learning facts about dinosaurs!  We learned from MSNBC that dinosaurs may have derived from birds.  We learned that dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.  Jake wrote about that and put it on our Wonder Wall!  J.B. and the girls have been reading about dinosaurs and how fossils show that they may have eaten their own babies!  We learned what extinct meant and went on a virtual field trip of a dinosaur museum!  We love our dinosaur items in our Wonder Center.  The kids have had a blast playing with all of the dinosaur toys and reenacting dinosaur days!  We learned all of this during "fill in" time or at the end of the day when all of our work was complete! We learned that you could go to the table of contents and find WHAT you want to learn about!  ( The kids who wanted to look at books...learned that! )

Thanks for supporting our fun, fun, fun learning!

We had a great time discovering about patterns and creating them with our pattern blocks!  Some of our pattern homework is hanging on our bulletin board!  Nice work! 

Sheila Rae the Brave has been a great class read this week!  We pulled out important vocabulary, worked in groups, and shared what some of those important words meant!  The children did a great job on our class "Twitter Posters".

I have created the letter attached in Google Docs, but I am not crazy about the way it formats my writing.  I will keep working and trying.  In the meantime, PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL HOMEWORK IS COMPLETED.  Students begin with a 100 Homework Grade and every time they are without their homework, the grade drops 2 points.

A big thank you to our moms who sent, M&Ms, pretzels, goldfish, and chocolate chips for us to pattern with for  Friday Fun Day...and then eat our patterns!

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for the support!