Christmas Party

We had the best time celebrating the holidays on the day before winter break with a class Christmas party. During our party, the children enjoyed several different centers before chowing down on some delicious snacks! The kids got to decorate cookies and eat them, decorate ornaments, play BINGO, and play "musical chairs" for our class book exchange. We had a blast!!

               

 

               

 

Prior to the Christmas party, I gave the students their gifts from me. I gave the students their own individual white boards and I put their names on them with my Cricut. The kids LOVE drawing on the white boards in class, so I thought they'd enjoy having their own at home. Here are a few photos of some of the children with their gifts. 

     

 

Christmas Play

The week before Christmas break, we had the opportunity to go to one of the county High Schools and watch a Christmas play put on my the drama students there. The students had a great time on our short field trip and even got to see Santa Claus! 

               

 

               

 

Classroom Elves!

We've been having fun while Timothy, our classroom Elf, is visiting from the North Pole to keep an eye on the children for Santa while they are at school. They have loved coming in each day and finding where Timothy has decided to post up for the day. On Friday when we arrived, we found our whole room had been "Elfed" by Timothy and some of his friends! Timothy was trying to look innocent while he colored a picture...of an Elf!

   

Christmas Musical

The first graders at Hilltop Elementary performed a Christmas Musical this week for the parents. Mrs. Dooley had them well prepared and they put on a great performance! The dance moves and singing were wonderful. It doesn't get much cuter than this! Also, our own Lily had a solo and made our class very proud!

Thanksgiving Celebration

We were so excited to have our parents invited to eat Thanksgiving dinner this year with the kids. After lunch, we had the parents come back to our room for a Readers' Theatre presentation called the ABC's of the first Thanksgiving. The kids did a great job and looked adorable in their Native American vests and headdresses

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Edible Landforms

I blew the kids' minds when I told them that to end our unit on landforms we would be not only building landforms with food, but we would also get to eat them! Check out a few of the photos of the landforms the boys and girls made out of graham crackers, colored icing, Hershey kisses, Rolos, and brown sugar. We had a blast making these and Kaden even claimed that it was the best day of school ever! 

 

Read Write the Room

Our first graders love anything that gets them up and moving, so one of our favorite activities is the Read Write the Room lesson. When studying the difference between common and proper nouns, the students had to go on a search around the room for nouns and write them down on a recording sheet deciphering between whether they were common or proper. Not only did the kids do a great job telling the difference, but they had a lot of fun doing it! They looked so cute and important with their little clipboards!