Happy Fall! Hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather. And some of you lucky folks are enjoying your fall break!
We have been busy in first grade, our first quarter is almost over already! We have studied fiction, story elements, fantasy vs realism, beg/mid/end sounds, word families, numbers to 20, number bonds, and we're working on addition and subtraction to 10! Whew! We also have 4 of the 5 Daily 5 rotations going. They already earned 50 minutes of stamina, had a dance party, and set the new goal of 100 minutes. It's been a busy, and exciting time.
We have also started our class blog! We try to write once a week, and I think they enjoy seeing their writing and pictures online. If you'd like to visit us, click here! We like seeing positive comments :)
I attended the Fall Writing Conference at MTSU and heard some great information about the kinds of writing common core will require. Narrative, informative, and persuasive writing are included in common core, beginning in Kindergarten. So to keep up, I made a little apple book for our celebration of Johnny Appleseed day. Grab it here, by clicking the picture below.
Activities are graphing apple colors, making applesauce and writing about the process and using the senses to describe and persuade, reality and fantasy about Johnny Appleseed, and labeling parts of an apple. It was a fun day, and as always, we couldn't even finish all we had planned!
We made an apple tree mural, depicting the four seasons. This is my second year to do this project and once again, it is too cute! I love the way the kids interpret the direction “Paint a tree trunk”…
Winter “In winter the tree don’t have leaves.” 
Spring “In spring pink flowers grow.”
Summer “In summer little green apples grow.”
Fall “In fall apples grow.”
We also made a hall display called Story Street. We will be blogging about it on The Penguin Pen next week. Check us out to read all about it!!
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