Turkey Time

If you were wondering what happened with the feathers you decorated, well here they are!

Isn't he a cute turkey?

In preparing for Thanksgiving, I had the students draw and paint some turkeys.

First, they sketched a turkey with a pencil. Second, they traced it with black crayon. After that they colored it with crayons. Then they painted over their turkey with watercolor paint.

They created some cute turkeys and had fun in the process!


I hope you all enjoyed the fall books your students made.

Halloween

All of the first grade team dressed up like cowgirls.

Here is Miss Aurich's class with our sweet Grandma Anita. We were very excited for a day full of fun and festivities.
We also had Miss Burnett with us. She has been helping in our class for the past month.
Here are all the cute little witches, princesses, knights, superheroes, and more!
We got to parade through the school.
We made spiders....
witches' hands...
and mummies!


These girls were the fastest mummy makers. This mummy just twirled until she was all wrapped up! It was quite an exciting Halloween Day!!!

Pulling Teeth

So I've been observing and learning some tips from the pro-teeth puller (Mrs. Anderson) for the past couple of months. I would send my students to her when they needed teeth pulled. I've wiggled a few teeth, but I never succeeded in pulling out a tooth until a couple weeks ago. The cute redhead was my first victory in teeth pulling. Then within a minute (after seeing the first tooth pulled ) I pulled out the cute brunette's tooth. (I'm sorry if blood makes you squeamish.) These girls were very brave! It was a very proud moment for me!

Fall is Here!

With the leaves now falling, we decided to put them to some good use.

To do this art project all you need is a spray bottle of watered down paint, paper, and leaves.

I think they love doing art!

Making Apple Cider

We have had such a fun and busy week. Make sure to look at the last two blogs as well.

Today we had a mom from Mrs. Anderson's class bring an apple press.

Our two classes got together to make apple cider.

The students got to get an apple, wash it, and then throw it in the apple press.

Everything went smoothly.

Some of the students even shared the apple poem that they memorized.

Look at how much fun they are having washing their apples!

What a great line? They were on their best behavior!

A couple of the boys even got to help crank the apple press.

Mrs. Barton helped keep things in order.

Time for some apple cider, and boy was it good!

I think this will be memorable day in first grade for everyone!

I know I will remember it!

Apple Week

I first read the class a story about a worm looking for a home with a star in it.

They did not believe that it would find a star in an apple.

Then we cut our apples, and look what we found.

A star!

Mrs. Jaynes was a great help.

The students predicted how many seeds they would find in their apples,

and then they counted the seeds to if their prediction was correct.

Then they got to come and make apple prints.

They loved eating their apples! The apples sure were yummy!

They also wrote about their apples.

Here are some samples of their apple prints. Didn't they do great?

Here are all of their apple prints on our bulletin board.

As a class, we came up with a couple of sentences for our board.

They came up with something great!

There really is a star inside all of my little apples!

Skate Night

Skate night was a real hit. The students were having so much!

Some were scooting!

Some were skating!

Some were eating snowies!

Thanks for coming and having fun!