I oughta' be ashamed...

I am so very sorry I haven't updated our website since September. We have had some busy, busy days at school lately. That is no excuse and I apologize for not updating you on what your little darlings have been doing. We did go on our field trip to the pumpkin patch and I will upload the pictures from that ASAP. I will also try to show some of the pictures from Halloween at school.

We have started unit 2 in reading and things are getting a little harder around our
1st grade classroom. I am requiring the kids to take more responsibility and they are having to do some things on their own now. I am reading the one side of their reading comprehension test for now and they are reading one side by themselves. This is slowly easing them into reading the entire test by themselves. They are also doing a reading workbook page for a grade now. A lot of the kids haven't been doing so great on this and it is really bringing down their reading grades. This week they did better but they still had some trouble with it.

This week at school we have read "Who Works Here?" and we have been talking a lot about community workers. The kids did some great writing about their favorite community workers and I am hoping to make a class book about community workers because they have done such a great job!!!

We decorated for Thanksgiving this week. It has always been one of my favorite holidays. We have written about the things we are thankful for and we have all "disguised" a turkey. They are too cute!!! Thank y'all for being so creative on this project. I will take pictures of our bulletin board so everyone can see all the turkeys. Mr.East is going to judge our turkeys and they top 3 winners will be getting a prize for their hard work. I'm so proud of them and this might be my favorite school project ever :)

HOMECOMING DRESS UP DAYS

Just a reminder homecoming week is next week. The dress up days are:
Monday-camo day
Tuesday-favorite college team day
Wednesday- western day
Thursday- pajama day
Friday-school spirit day

I encourage you to allow your kids to dress up. This will be a very fun week at school.

Johnny Appleseed

Whew...this has been a fun filled day full of apples, apples, and more apples. For those of you who aren't 1st grade teachers you may not know why we learned so much about apples today. Sunday, September 26 is Johnny Appleseed's birthday. Our class celebrated his birthday with homemade apple muffins and apple juice for breakfast and we had caramel and apples this afternoon with apple juice for a snack. Yum! The kids loved it and one even said..."Ms.Mary you cook better than my mama." Hahaha...another kid said..."She didn't cook this. It's apples silly. They grew on a a tree." Nice thought though.

I have a lot of pictures from today but I can upload a few. Enjoy!!!

Ms.Mary's Superheroes...

The Pep Rally Friday at school was a superhero theme. I sent a note home saying the kids could dress up if they wanted to. As I was sitting at my desk Friday morning superwoman walked into my room and let me tell you she was one excited 6 year old. :) We had a spiderman and a batman superhero in our classroom as well. Just thought I'd post the pics of our superheroes. We had some fun at the pep rally and the kids who were scared of "Sandy" and "Rocky" (the school wildcat mascots) did pretty good at the pep rally and didn't get scared on me and panic. I was a little nervous about this. I hope you enjoy our pics...

Farm City Day

We had a great time at farm city day! Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who were able to attend this fun event with your child. They were so thrilled to have you there. I took a lot of pictures and I will post a few of them on here to share with you.

If the child had an adult with them they were able to sit on a horse with Mrs.Young. Of course that was a huge hit! They played in the corn pit and threw corn anywhere and everywhere. It was wild!!! We played in a pile of hay...I say WE but I mean they! I would be so sick if I jumped in so I just took fun pics while they played.
We learned many fun and interesting facts about native americans and it was a great way to learn some new things in new ways. I hope you enjoy our pictures. I will post the infomation we are learning this week on our "What we're learning" page. Check there for detailed information on our weekly happenings.

I am sending home a permission slip today for a field trip to the pumpkin patch. It needs to be filled out front and back and sent back to school ASAP.

Pig In a Wig

Whew...Pig in a Wig about wore me out this week. We have done so many things with pigs this week that you'd think our class would be experts on pigs by now. We have painted a piggy bank which we are going to use as a word bank in our classroom. We made pig snacks out of pancakes, pink icing, and other yummy treats and we made a pig class book.

Our class did excellent this week on their tests to go along with Pig in a Wig. There were 14 kids in our class who made a 100 on their reading test, 17 kids who made a 100 on their spelling test, 17 students who made a 100 on their math test, and every student made a 100 on their DOL test. WOW!!! We have had a wonerful week in 1st grade.

We also got back our first scholastic book order this week. Thank you to all the families who purchased an item for our class off of our class wish list. I tried to remember who wanted to give the books to the class and who was purchasing for their children. If I sent a book home and it was supposed to be for our class library you can just send it back to school. I also have an order without a name on it. The order was for the disney fairy tale book, the science collection, and the pinkalicious book. If this was your order just let me know and I'll send the books home next week. I will send home another book order soon with a new wish list for our classroom library.

Don't forget....we don't have school Monday. It is Labor Day and I am so excited about my day off. I plan to work on a baby shower I am giving for a friend so I'll still be busy but at least I'll be at home in my PJ's.

Study those new buzz words and the new spelling words. Our spelling pre-test will be on Tuesday. I hope you have a great weekend!!!