Pumpkin Adjectives

Clever 1st graders practiced their knowledge of adjectives or words that describe nouns, by making adorable Adjective Pumpkins. Enthusiastic students chose an adjective from the back table and then created a pumpkin that matched that describing word.

Smart students really grasped the concept of an adjective with this activity...thank you Halloween! 

Precious 1st graders were even coming up to our adjective wall to use them in their writing pieces. They couldn't be making their happy teacher prouder!

Writer's Workshop

It looked like a squiggle but it wasn't a squiggle...

We read the story, It Looked Like Split Milk to get ideas for our own writing pieces. Students were given a squiggle line and created a picture around that squiggle. It is always fun to see what the boys' and girls' creative minds come up with. Students' drawings were unique and interesting. Once we completed our pictures, we wrote a sentence to go with our work. Then, we took our sentences through the whole writing process! We especially focused on revising our writing to make them even better.

Steps in the writing process

Here are our published writing pieces.  Make sure to pay close attention to our illustrations and backgrounds.  What do you see in the squiggle?

Global Read Aloud

Today marked our first day participating in Global Read Aloud. The Global Read Aloud mission is for one book to connect the world. Over the next few weeks we will be reading, doing activities, and working on comprehension skills while reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. 296,000 students, 5,600 different teachers in more than 60 different countries are already signed up to take part in this global project.  Klipfel and Kids will be connecting with Mrs. Gelles' 1st graders from Bear Creek Elementary School in Grapevine, Texas. This afternoon we sent our new friends in Texas a class picture and are excited to receive one back soon.

Hello from Massachusetts 

Along the way both classes will be doing similar activities and skyping to share our read aloud experiences. To kick off the project, 1st graders used clues from the title, pictures, and cover to make predictions.  Now we're ready to take part on Edward's journey.