We continued our Character Counts this month by learning about Respect. We talked about how to show respect to others, ourselves, property, and the environment.  We watched some YouTube videos about Respect that the kids loved to sing along with.

We wore yellow to celebrate Respect!

Our school hosts the Veteran's Day program for our community every year.  We start off the program by having Kindergarten through 3rd grade say the Pledge of Allegiance.  Here we are lined up to go out to the program.  It's a little blurry, I'm not sure what happened...

We also made an art project to hang in our room to decorate for Veteran's Day.  These star mobiles really brighten up our doorway and window out into the hallway.

 The cutest turkey crafts EVER are all over my classroom. We painted bowls and toilet paper rolls to make these turkeys.  We made a list of about 100 things we were thankful for and could choose only 8.  Let me tell you- it was a hard choice to make!

If I don't post again, have a great Thanksgiving!!

~Ms. Anglin

Halloween is out, Thanksgiving is in!

Well, all of my jack-o-lanterns and ghosts have been put away for the year.  Just a few more things to show you then we are finished with Halloween!

Here they all are dressed up for Halloween.  Notice the scary Halloween faces :)

We went trick or treating to the Nursing Home, Assisted Living, and the rest of the school.

In Reading last week we practiced reading out loud to a partner. We read lots of science related books with partners. Partner reading helps them become more independent readers because they can't just look at the teacher for help. They have to try a little harder on their own.

Give Me 5, Turkey! The Thanksgiving bulletin board features turkeys and counting by 5s.  I got this idea from Pinterest, of course :)  Each student made 2 or 3 turkeys by tracing their hands.  Then we practiced counting by 5s to number them.  Each turkey is unique and individual just like each of these awesome 1st graders!!

In Science we are learning about animals. We learned about mammals yesterday and are creating mammal posters by cutting out pictures from magazines.  

Today we learned about insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and fish. Whew, that sure was a lot to learn but we did great at it!  Our animal project today was making foam bugs.  I never thought I'd say this but... Aren't these bugs so cute!

Thanks for catching up with us!
~Ms. Anglin