We had a terrific St. Patrick's Day in first grade! Our day started with a surprise. Some naughty leprechauns had visited! They made a mess with school supplies, left green footprints on the tables, and turned the toilet water green. Tricky! We enjoyed our day. We did some "Lucky" writing, read some wonderful Irish tales, made a St. Patrick's graph, and enjoyed some special cupcakes. We also checked out the Chromebooks for some St. Patrick's Day learning games.
Here is a wee bit of computer fun for your St. Patrick's Day!
We ended our super fun Seuss week with Green Eggs and Ham. In
the morning, we ate green eggs and ham. Delicious! Thank you to Mrs. Hoke, Mrs. Clark, and Mrs. Fisher. The children LOVED it! Of course, we read
the story. And, we did a graph of if we liked Green Eggs and Ham or not.
We also did a rewrite of the story. The students had to
think of something they didn't like to eat and make some rhymes to go
with! They turned out great! The students had to work really hard on the rhymes.
We had our Papa John's pizza party. Yum! What a fun day of delicious treats. Don't forget for dessert, Mrs. Tuhy made us candied green eggs and ham. We are just the LUCKIEST to have so many generous and supportive friends of the classroom.
At the end of the day, we took a look at all the great Dr. Seuss books. Students chose their favoirite to do a mini book report on. The students' opinions were as varied as Dr. Seuss' many characters. What a great week of reading!
"Did you ever have the feeling there's a WASKET in your BASKET? ...Or a NUREAU in you BUREAU? ...Or a WOSET in you CLOSET? Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN there's a JERTAIN in the CURTAIN."
On Thursday we read There's a Wocket in My Pocket. The children were challenged to wear as many pockets as they could. My goodness, were these students ever clever! We made a tally chart of all our pockets, then counted by 5's to discover that our class wore 109 pockets on Thursday! Wow!
Dr. Seuss has so many crazy ideas and characters. We have had sometime this week to explore a website called Seussville. The website is packed full of games, activities, videos, and printables. The children love it!
In the afternoon, we enjoyed the book Hop on Pop read aloud by an app. Each of the
Dr. Seuss books has an app (digital book) with a fluent reading of the
story. I love these OceanhouseMedia apps because the children can hear the book over
and over with out my tongue getting tied in knots. I also love them for
in the car. My children listen to the book on our way to gymnastics, a
great way to sneak in a little more reading. You can check out the
series of apps by clicking here. Of course, Hop on Pop is best enjoyed with some "Hop on Popcorn."
Backwards clothes and inside out? A shoe on the wall and our schedule written backwards? It must be Dr. Seuss's Wacky Wednesday! What a fun book! This Wacky Wednesday we took a close look at the book. We put it up on the document camera so that we had a full view of all the wackiness. We had to read the book in 15 minute chunks because the children were looking so closely for all the strange things hidden in each illustration.
We also made whirly birds to celebrate Wacky Wednesday. On our whirly
birds we wrote five important "wh" words: who, what, when, where, and
why. Then, we would throw the whirly bird in the air, as it twirled
down we had to see if we could spell the "wh" word called out. Wacky
Wednesday spelling lesson for sure!
With all the wacky things going on we also had some time to be serious. We read Dr. Seuss's story The Lorax. The Lorax has an important ecology lesson that goes perfectly with our latest inquiry unit of protecting Earth's natural resources. After we read the story, we had a little snack and pulled up a Popplet we made about protecting the Earth's treasures.
The students used what we have learned in reading to write how they can help protect the Earth. They did a great job! They also illustrated their writing by coloring then spraying a coffee filter with water. The sprayed filters turned into beautiful Earths. Take a look at a few samples.
For our second day of Dr. Seuss theme week we have the book Fox in Socks. We read it despite the clear warning at the beginning of the book that the sentences can tie your tongue in knots with all the rhymes. The children wore their craziest socks and we practiced finding and making rhymes. We even did a fun sort of real words and nonsense words. We also read Dr. Seuss's Foot Book, for feet go well with socks. Check out these "Foxy" socks and cute feet!
Our literacy centers are filled with Dr. Seuss this week. Here are just a few. We have several books on our class ipods. The children are loving listening to them at "read along" center. I also have a collection of Dr. Seuss digital books for the ipad. The apps are the books with the option to have the books read aloud. The apps are on sale this week from Oceanhouse Media Books. I highly recommend! There is a magnetic letter center where students are assembling famous Dr. Seuss quotes. We also have a wacky letter game similar to Twister but with a Dr. Seuss twist. The kids have to put their hands and feet and EAR on different letters and sounds. So fun!
Such a fun day! We graphed our socks and got lots of practice counting by twos. And, with Fox in Socks, we just had to dance to "What Does the Fox Say?" We had a special "One Fish, Two Fish" snack. This Dr. Seuss week is a blast. Can't wait to celebrate more reading!
We had a terrific St. Patrick's Day in first grade! Our day started with a surprise. Some naughty leprechauns had visited! They made a mess with school supplies, left green footprints on the tables, and turned the toilet water green. Tricky! We enjoyed our day. We did some "Lucky" writing, read some wonderful Irish tales, made a St. Patrick's graph, and enjoyed some special cupcakes. We also checked out the Chromebooks for some St. Patrick's Day learning games.
