Class 1M News 2/23 to 3/7/11

We have been so busy these past few weeks. We have been reading many different fairy tales and doing many fun fairy tale related activities.We have read different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk,  Cinderella, and The Princess and the Pea. We worked on identifying story elements and the rising and falling action of a story. We also compared and contrasted different characters and different stories. The children made a huge castle in the classroom. We have been working using quotation marks to read with expression. The children have also been writing sentences using quotation marks. They designed their own giants and using quotation marks they wrote what they think he/she would say. We also have been working on contractions and inflectional endings.

Creating our castle!

In Writing, we began to write our own fairy tales. Each child came up with their story topic and wrote an enchanting beginning, which included introducing the main characters and the setting as well as the problem.
The children also have been writing and acting out their own fairy tales in Puppet Theater during Literacy Centers.

We went our trip to see Seussical. It was a wonderful musical and the children really enjoyed it.Look at some pictures of the trip below.

Seussical

We also celebrated the 100th Day of School. The children made 100th Day books, read a poem with 100 words, and played games involving the number 100 in Math. They did a wonderful job presenting their 100th Day of School book projects. Check out their projects below.

100 Pinkalicious cupcakes

100 stars

100 coins

100 pencils from Junie B. Jones

100 leaves

100 Goldicious wands

100 of Fancy Nancy's delicious cupcakes

Roll to 100

Roll and tally to 100

The children are having a blast learning about penguins. We have been reading and writing about penguins for the past week or so. Ask your child to tell you about some of the interesting things that they have learned.


Peter was our Student of the Week and he read his favorite book to the class. Mrs. Rappold came in to do a special presentation about Peter and talked to us about Guatemala. It was lovely.

Thursday, 3/10 is our trip to Jenkinson's Aquarium. The children need to bring a brown bag lunch with their name on it. They can come dressed down in black and white in honor of the penguins. It is an all day trip. We will return to school between 2 and 2:30.

A farmer delivered some chicken eggs to Mrs. Meier's science lab. Here are some pictures...

Friday is the 1st and 4th Grade Mini-Musical, Red Riding Hood. It will be at 1:45 in the All Purpose room. I hope you all will be able to come and see it. The children have been working really hard on it.

Have a great week!!!

Jennifer Molloy