Miss Ahrens' Class: September 2013

First Grade Proof-Reading

The 1st grade students began proof-reading exercises this morning. Overall they did a great job. This skill helps with attention to detail as well as small motor skills and penmanship.

Hunter and Jessica

Sirius, Justin, and Destiny

Beans - Day 36

Big developments on the "bean front" over the weekend. We have pods. They are small, but they are definitely pods. :-)

See for yourself!

Week 7 Poetry

Leaves Tumble Down

A perky little elf

Sat up in my backyard tree

Painting attractive leaves

To throw all around me.

Leaves of golden yellow

Leaves of bright shiny red

They all came tumbling down

About my targeted head.

If You're Happy and You Know It

If you're happy and you know it,

Clap your hands!

If you're happy and you know it,

Clap your hands!

If you're happy and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you're happy and you know it,

Clap your hands!

(If you're happy and you know it, nod your head)
(If you're happy and you know it, click your heels)

(If you're happy and you know it, pull your hair)

(If you're happy and you know it, pat your heart)

Happy Box Friday

The following students earned Happy Box!

Anthony H.

Destiny

Domiyan

Hunter

Jessica

Justin

Megan

Sirius

Destiny, Domiyan, Jessica, Justin, Megan, and Sirius received two picks because they earned purple every day this week.

Congratulations!

Sharing the Letter /G/

Megan brought back the Letter of the Week containers and SURPRISE.....

...She brought in a great, baseball glove! She said that she plays baseball with her dad!

Apple Harvest Time

We used our first issue of Time for Kids! Happily it covered the apple theme that we have been discussing.

Check you Take Home Folder for 2 more activities to do with this magazine at home!

A team of palaeontologists from China, the United States and Sweden found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in the area 419 million years ago.

The fossil was found Qujing City, Yunnan Province.

The fish, named Entelognathus primordialis, was a 20-cm-long placoderm. The placoderm is an extinct armour-plated fish and the first known animals to evolve true jaws. Their head and thorax were covered by moveable armoured plates and the rest of the body, depending on the species, was covered with scales or skin.

Read more

I Am Learning /Gg/

Students sang and played instruments this morning. Hunter counted in the class (band drummer in the making :D)

Letter of the Week Poster

We sat together, this morning, and the students thought of 64 words that begin with /Gg/.

Sharing /Gg/

Megan was chosen to take the Letter of the Week containers home this week. She will fill the container with something special to share with the class on Friday.

We can't wait to see what she brings :-)

Letter of the Week 100 Chart

Justin's 100 Chart Girl

Students followed directions carefully today and created a girl using a 100-chart. There were some harder directions for this one.

Justin, Megan, and Anthony

Anthony I., Jessica, and Sirius

Destiny, Hunter, and Domiyan

Beans - Day 29

We have flowers and now the waiting begins for pods :-)

Making Words

This morning, we started a new activity called Making Words. We started with the -at family. As the year progresses, Making Words gets more challenging and we use more than one vowel sound in each word.

The students did remarkably good for the first time!

-at Word Family and Making Words

We are starting a new (for Kindergarten students) activity, today, called Making Words. This activity strengthens spelling and phonics skills.

This week, we are working with the -at word family.

Please check your Kindergarten student's folder for this phonics game. This game goes hand-in-hand with our classroom activity and the homework. Playing this game at home increases your child's ability to sound out words and uses small motor skills.

Have fun with it!

Week 6 Poetry

Apples

Apples, apples, one, two, three,

Apples for you,

Apples for me.

Apples big and apples small,

Apple trees tiny and apple trees tall.

Apples sour,

Apples sweet,

Apples, apples, are nice to eat.

/Gg/
sung to: The Farmer in the Dell

I am learning Gg.
I am learning Gg.
G - G - G - G - G - G
(make the hard Gg sound)
I am learning Gg.

Gorilla starts with Gg...
Ghost begins with Gg...
Girl begins with Gg...
Goat begins with Gg...
Goose begins with Gg...

Happy Box Friday

The following students earned Happy Box!

Angelina

Anthony H.

Anthony I.

Destiny

Domiyan

Jessica

Justin

Megan

Sirius

Destiny, Jessica, Justin, and Angelina, received two picks because they earned purple every day this week.

Congratulations!

When Life Gives You Apples.....

....You Make Apple Sauce!

Today, the students made apple sauce. I cut up 5.5 pounds of apples first thing this morning and we cooked the apples for 30 minutes in the microwave.