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!!!