Field Day!

So today was Field Day! It turned out to be a nice warm day luckily! We had a ton of events that the kids got to do (as well as the teachers) and a lot of them had to do with team work! This worked out very well for us because they work very well as a team! We even got the TEAM SPIRIT AWARD! :)Next year we are going for the all around field day winners...not just for spirit! :) SO PROUD OF MY KIDS!

Story Structure!

Here is a cute idea for story structure. We read a Frog and Toad story and after, the kiddos got to make their own frog and write the different story features inside of it. They loved it!...and it fit right into my classroom theme this year! :)

Scorpions!!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while!! It has been one busy year! Check out who came to visit us today!!! ...Don't worry...it was already dead!! The kids loved and it and were more brave than me! They were the ones asking to hold it!! CRAZY FIRST GRADERS! :)

Ally the Alligator

So the break is over and we are getting back into the swing of things!! We have been learning about greater than and less than, and in order to make it fun for my kiddos and give them a visual, I found an alligator head!(thanks to my friend Mick!) I introduced it to my kids, and they fell in love! That was of course after the initial fear wore off. Haha. When I teach the symbols for greater than and less than I teach them that the "alligator" eats the biggest number because the symbol looks like an alligator mouth. So I decided what better way to give them a visual than to bring in an alligator head!! It was a big hit, and I use it everyday during Math Wall!! Just another way to make learning fun!!!