Election and Guest Reader!

Man I am behind!!!! I will try and catch you up with what we have been doing the past few weeks in class. :) A few weeks ago we did a few writing and reading activities that went along with the presidential election. The first thing we did was read, Duck for President.   This book describes a duck that is tired of working on a farm and wants to be in CHARGE. He goes from being a farm hand to the president of the United States. Once he is the president of the United States he realizes that he liked being a farm hand better. After we read the book each of my students had the chance to pick an animal that they would vote to be the best animal in the world. They wrote a story about why I should vote for their animal. They wrote about different qualities that their animal had and why they were better than any other animal. We have been talking about the trait of organization in writing and so the students had to start with a sound lead. After we finished our stories we talked about campaign posters and each of my students made a campaign poster for their animal. Here are a few pictures of the finished writing page and campaign poster. They turned out GREAT! :)

 Today we had a SPECIAL guest reader come after lunch. :) My husband came and read my class a few books! The kids loved it! :) Here are a few pictures.

Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Mrs. High

GO BIG RED!

This past weekend my husband and I got to attend the Husker vs. Penn State game in Lincoln. It was so great to have a little get away and to watch the Huskers get a win! It was only my second Husker game ever and my husband had not been to one since high school.

Here are a few photos for all you Husker fans out there :)

Classroom Videos!

I have been playing around with iMovie on my iPad and here are a few videos that I have created! More to come soon :).

Reading is Fun Video!
Monster Video

Enjoy! :)

Monsters and SWEET Treats! :)

October has come and gone so quickly this year! We have been very busy art bees this month. We made monsters, owls, m&m's, and candy corn. My trick-or-treat wall turned out GREAT! My kids love seeing their art work displayed all over the classroom. Here are a few pictures of our artwork. 

M&M men :)

Trick-or-Treat, Mrs. High's Class is really SWEET! 

In Writing we read the book, I Need My Monster. This book is great and very similar to the movie Monsters Inc. After we read the book we made our own monsters off of a monster glyph. The monster glyph was as follows:

Body Color:  my favorite color

Leg Color:  Pink if I’m a girl

Blue if I’m a boy

Teeth: number of letters in my first name

Eyes: number of kids in my household

Horns: number matches my favorite subject:

1)         Math   

2)        Reading

3)        Writing

Here are pictures of their monsters. They all turned out GREAT!!! :)

Trick-or-Treat, First Grade is REALLY sweet!

October is flying by and we have been very busy bees in first grade. Last week was fire prevention week and so we made firemen and wrote about ways to stay safe at home. The students did an awesome job on their firemen! Here are a few pictures for you!

This week we made M&M men for my Halloween wall. Next week we are going to make candy corn to go with my "Trick-or-Treat, First Grade is really sweet" wall! 

They got to decorate the feet and hands themselves! My students are so creative and came up with some great ideas! I love how each one is so unique and different :)

Peanut M&M on the left and regular on the right!

Here is the candy corn we are going to make next week! Can't wait to have them all hanging up for conferences!

On a different note, next week we are hopefully going to get to blog about our favorite thing so far in first grade! It has been way to long since my students have had a chance to blog, but there is NO time ):  

Have a GREAT week!

Mrs. High

Having Fun in Hollywood! :)

This is SO sad that I am just posting some things from the beginning of the year but at least it is getting done now :). 

Our theme in my classroom this year is Hollywood. At the beginning of the year I read several books about "stars". We read the books, Charlie Hits it Big, Dream Big, Little Pig, and  Stella is a Star. 

My Students loved reading these books about animal stars and talking about star qualities. My students got to dress up like movie stars and then decorate their own star. I have these hanging up in my entry room. 

Here are a few of my students dressed up like movie stars!

Here is a movie trailer that I made of all of my students dressed up like movie stars! Click on the red words, "Movie Star VIDEO!" to watch it. 

Movie Star VIDEO!

Here are a few of my hollywood bulletin boards in my room. 

This is my reading corner with all of our reading strategies on the posters. 

Here is my star student bulletin board. I will not start using this until second semester. 

Writing corner!

This is my NEWEST find for our hollywood room! I found this director's chair at an auction for $2.50 :). The auctioneer did not understand why I was so excited about an old director's chair! :) Each night I pick a student who has done a great job being safe, respectful, and responsible that day. That student gets to sit in the director's chair the next day! 

Fire Safety and Owl Art

I found an ADORABLE owl art project on pinterest and thought I would try it out! We made owls by ripping brown paper and then we glued it to an owl pattern. They turned out so cute...even though it took an hour of ripping paper! :). Here are a few pictures of my students owls. 

Next week is fire safety week. In class we will discuss fire safety and how my students can stay safe at home.   The fire department is going to come in and talk to our students about how to stay safe at home. We are going to do a writing/art project after the presentation. My students are going to make a fireman and write about ways that they can stay safe from fire at home. Here is an example of what our firemen will look like. 

I can't wait to see how these turn out! I will post pictures of some of the finished firemen next week :).