Earth Month Activities!

 Bird Watching! 

 Making posters to encourage people to protect wildlife 

 Creating bird feeders 

Reading Month Dress-Up Day!

 Some of us were dressed as the wedding guests in Patricia Polacco's book, The Keeping Quilt.

 Using mixed medium collage to create a story setting in the style of Ezra Jack Keats

Dressed as farmers and farm animals in honor of Patrica Polacco spending her childhood on a farm 

Guest Readers and Book Fair!

 Senator Peter MacGregor visited our class to read a story.

 Mrs. Barrett reads to little listeners at the Barnes and Noble Book Fair.

 A few of our amazing first graders reading to the audience! 

Making Thundercake!

Today we listened to Patricia Polacco read her book, Thundercake, about a little girl who is scared of thunderstorms. Her grandmother attempts to distract her from the storm by helping her make a special cake.  After listening to the story we made our own version of the cake in the crockpot. Everyone pitched in to help and after a few hours, we got to enjoy a piece of cake during writing class!

Valentine's Day Fun

 Using conversation hearts to count, measure, and graph! 

 Party time! 

Field Trip to the Public Museum

 Our class 

 Going back in time to the Civil War

 Carrying civil war gear - heavy stuff!