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:

Weekly Update 8.22

Welcome

Weekly Update 4.9

Harmony Around the World:

Link to signup: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054DADA82CA20-harmony

Harmony Around the World is on April 27th from 6pm to 8pm.  We will have performances in the gym first and then you may tour the hallways to see the different projects. 

I need to get a head count for how many of the kids will be performing, please RSVP and enter only your first grader in the child attending section.  They will need to wear shorts and their field trip shirt (green). The Asalele's are willing to a "costume" for the performance.  The cost per child is $1. If your child is performing please send $1 with your child. I will collect the money and give it to the Asalele's.
The sooner we can get the money the better.

We need a few volunteers to help prepare food and man the booth. We also need a few items donated. Please check out the signup and help out where you can.  

For those of you who are new to Harmony, Harmony Around the World is a fun family activity. There are many countries represented and lots of good food to try.  There is a small fee $1 or $2 per plate to help cover the cost.  More information will come out about that in the newsletter. 

We are also still in need of Lego items donated.

Upcoming events:

·   April 9^th- April 18^th: Tornado Relief coin drive: The homeroom that raises the most money will receive an ice cream party.

         April 12^th: School Pictures

·         April 18^th: Donations for Lego Basket for Harmony Around the World are due.  Anything Lego themed!

·         April 25^th: Spring Homeroom Breakfast http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054DADA82CA20-spring1

·         April 27^th: Harmony Around the World from 6-8pm.  Please watch for signup for volunteering and food preparation. We have been working on a performance throughout the school year.  We would love to have as many of the kids here as possible, so mark your calendars!

·         May 3^rd: Field Trip to Mrs. Baird’s Bakery.  More information to come.

·         May 18^th: Science Fair –information will be coming soon. 

What’s going on in the classroom?

·         ELA: adjectives, cause and effect, sharing opinions, suffixes ly, ful, y

·         Math: adding and subtracting (word problems) using data graphs

·         Science: Plants

·         Social Studies: Careers

·         Spelling Words: hopeful, quickly, helpful, help, trick, tricky, dust, dusty, slowly, slow, sadly, sad

·         Sight Words: hello, behind, leaves, happened, any, idea, gone, almost

Plant Life Cycle Project

We are creating PowerPoints to show the stages in the plant life cycle.  I have asked the kids to be creative!  They are working with a partner.  The document is a shared document, meaning both partners can work on it at the same time from different locations.  Each group has their own link to their PowerPoint. I am including the links.  We will be going to the computer lab to work on this, but many of the kids wanted to work on it at home.  Please help to ensure that they are on the link with their name by it.

Thanks for your support,
Mrs. Nelson

Group 1 Jessica and Kaylee: http://tinyurl.com/7jsgvcp

Group 2 Christian D., Christian A, and Garman: http://tinyurl.com/76wlrmn

Group 3 Andrew and Bryan: http://tinyurl.com/7fr7b8v

Group 4 Harmony and Carson: http://tinyurl.com/6qoyfdl

Group 5 Alex and Jacob O: http://tinyurl.com/729ajp2

Group 6 Anthony and Mallory: http://tinyurl.com/6lqmkkn

Group 7 Ryan H. and Sandor: http://tinyurl.com/7bmb6f2

Group 8 Gionna and Lona: http://tinyurl.com/7qhd6hk

Group 9 Hayat and Munevera: http://tinyurl.com/7xq4zjx

Group 10 Hadley and Emily: http://tinyurl.com/8acxv58

Group 11Amra and Alexa: http://tinyurl.com/849agfc

Group 12 Ellis and Daron: http://tinyurl.com/7mmswfc

Group 13 Ryan S. and Grace: http://tinyurl.com/7pjy9dx

Group 14: http://tinyurl.com/7lud9ga