Rocks, Soil, and Water: Play Dough

Today we visited the other first grade classrooms and explored rocks, soil, and water.  We made rock patterns and observed several.  In our classroom, we got our hands dirty and made salt play dough.

Thank you to everyone who donated items to make this activity possible!

Onomatopoeia: Popcorn Poetry

Today we learned whathouse an Onomatopoeia is. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggest the source of the sound. Here are some of the examples we found:

We used our five senses to as we popped popcorn.

After our exploration, we wrote poems about our experiences.

Onomontopeia: Popcorn Poetry Continued

Here are a few samples of these fabulous first graders poems!

We all had a won

Alliterations

Today we learned about alliterations.  We read Dr. Seuss's ABC and we made alliteration sentences using our names.  We then made our faces with paper plates and put the alliteration sentence on a pink tongue!  The kids did a great job!
Here are a few samples: