Dr. Seuss

We have been having a Seusstastic March!  As part of Read Across America in Room 116 students went on a QR hunt around the classroom with all of their Dr. Seuss knowledge. Using the app, Qrafter, students worked in pairs to scan the QR codes with the iPads. Once they scanned the QR code it brought them to a Dr. Seuss question that they needed to work together to answer. Try scanning the codes below (all you need is any free QR scanning app for an iPhone, iPad or iPod).

There was lots of Dr. Seuss trivia. Do you know where Dr. Seuss was born or what the first book he ever wrote was? How about the number of words in Green Eggs and Ham? If not, ask your first grader to help.

1st graders and our Kindergarten buddies have been using the month to share our love of reading and show our school spirit.  Students celebrated Oh The Places You'll Go day by dressing in clothes from their favorite places and creating post cards to send to family members.  We traveled to Disney, sports stadiums, Hawaii and even Paris.

K-Buddies and 1st graders also celebrated crazy hat, wacky wardrobe and silly sock day!  Last Friday, buddies each created their own crazy hat with their reading favorites. 

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -Dr. Seuss

iRead

With the wonderful addition of six iPads right in our classroom this year, you might walk into Room 116 at any point and think that students are "playing" on the iPads but Klipfel & Kids are very busy learning.  1st graders have been loving using the iPads as digital print in guided reading groups and for independent reading.  1st graders use iBooks to read digital texts with interactive digital features and to enjoy class books we have made this year.  

We of course have some favorite reading apps! A new favorite app Epic! (the Netflix of books) lets students enjoy a wide variety of digital books. Scholastic Classroom Magazine is another wonderful app students love reading from to improve their reading skills, vocabulary, and comprehension.  Klipfel and Kids can't forget Raz-Kids where students have discovered the added poetry books. 

We don't stop there 1st graders are becoming experts on sharing their thinking about texts in digital form too!  We can retell texts using illustrations from the story or what we visualized.  Check out some of our work.

Students can read digital print at home.  If you haven't already, save our class books in iBooks for easy reading anytime.  At home, search the free books available in iBooks for your child to practice their reading or download our favorite reading apps if you don't already have them!  Happy digital reading!