Give Me Five, Turkey!

I am always shocked that some students have never made a hand turkey before. I guess you have to learn everything somewhere and what better place then 1st grade! Check out our hand turkeys:

 
These turkeys quickly turned into mathematical tools. We'll use them to help us count by fives throughout the month of November. 

Make sure to practice counting by fives at home. Mix it up by starting from any number. Use your hand turkeys to help or nickels to make sure your child really understands how to count automatically by fives.

Halloween

Happy Halloween from your favorite 1st graders! Thank you to those who donated to our Halloween Party with delicious food or crafts. A special thanks to our room mothers for organizing our event and all the parents who helped during the big event. Costumes are on and we're ready for some Trick-or-Treating.

Fuller Meadow really has a one in a "minion" staff!

We'll see your sleepy sugary faces in the morning.

Perfect Plump Pumpkin Alliterations

Our first published piece on the iPads is complete. Students created, wrote and then published an alliteration. Alliterations are sentences that have the same sound repeated at the beginning of many words.

First we used pictionaries to help brainstorm words the start with the beginning sound in our names. We unscrambled funny alliterations on the Smartboard to help us understand that our alliterations must make sense! Students then wrote a sentence to make their own alliterations. After our sentences were complete, students wrote them on sentences strips and made an adorable pumpkin to go along with it.

Wait, we weren't done yet. Next, we used the iPads and illustrated our pictures using one of our favorite apps educreations. Students even independently typed their sentences choosing their color, size and placement. As a class we recorded ourselves reading our sentences. Make sure to watch our final published piece above.