Mushroom in the Rain

We read lots of stories about the weather this week. One of the stories we read was called "Mushroom in the Rain" by Mirra Ginsburg. In the story, it begins to rain and then five animals try to hide under one small mushroom...you will have to read the story to find out what happens (or you can ask one of the 1st graders in Miss Cluff's class!).

Each of the students hid their own animals underneath a mushroom. The students all had interesting mushroom designs. Come to school and check out our bulletin board to see every student's mushroom!

Valentine's Day Fun and Cool Creations

We celebrated Valentine's Day today! The students decorated their bags and got lots of nice notes and treats. It was "Wear Red and Pink" day. We made a graph that shows the color of everyone's shirt color in our class. Red and pink tied!

We also keep getting more and more visitors in our classroom. Many of our students have made their own creations at home and brought them in to visit the class.

This is Lizzie. She likes to help our class with math.

This is Valentine. She came especially for Valentine's Day.

This friend does not have a name yet, but I really love the glitter and stickers!

We had 1 student pass the 2nd grade words and she is now moving on to 3rd grade words. Congratulations! We also had another student complete EVERY episode in Head Sprouts. Terrific job!

We're Learning About the Weather!

Recycling Helps Save the Earth

Luke and his friend came to visit our class since we were learning about recycling this week. They were so excited to meet all of the students!

Congratulations to all 6 of our 1st graders who have moved on to 2nd grade sight words! A lot of the other students are close to mastering the 100 1st grade sight words. Keep up the great work!

100th Day of School!

We celebrated the 100th day of school last Friday. Students brought in collections of 100 things. We had everything from 100 Pokemon cards to 100 pieces of cereal. Nice work 1st graders! You all did terrific! I am so lucky to be your teacher!

It was a jungle in the lunchroom on Friday!

There were lions and elephants roaming around.

The students ate tiger blood soup and gorilla sandwiches. Delicious!

We are excited because 3 of our 1st graders have already mastered the 100 1st grade sight words in 1 minute. Congratulations! Good luck with the 2nd grade sight words!

100 Sight Words

The new challenge in our class is to read all 100 1st grade sight words in 1 minute. Students are graphing their progress in achieving this goal every week. Those who reach the goal get to choose an animal puzzle to take home and keep.

Keep practicing your sight words! :)

Family Fun!

We learned about families last week and guess what? We are learning more about families this week! 1st graders, can you sing our song about families to your family? Remember, it starts out "Oh a family is people and a family is love, that's a family..." Here are some sentences our class wrote about families:

All of the students are writing stories right now about princesses, sword fighters, ninjas, dinosaurs, or fairies. I love reading them! We definitely have some future authors in this class! Parents, you should be really excited to read these stories-they're amazing!