January So Far

We started the month out as we have since October- Character Counts.  January is Fairness.  We talked about be fair with your friends, sharing, letting everyone have a turn, and following rules.  Obviously, we wore orange this day!  Such a hard color some years, but everyone found something with orange on it to wear.

Fairness

My favorite thing that we have done so far this month has been our Ukrainian Kaleidoscope Assembly.  We learned all about the country of Ukraine from a very nice man named Serge.  He spoke in his native language sometimes and showed us pictures of the country and of a school ceremony.  He also had many Ukrainian artifacts to show us, like shoes, clothes, alphabet, decorated eggs, and Ukrainian nesting dolls.  Serge is a very talented musician and played several instruments for us.  He showed everyone a traditional dance performed by boys, and boys from our school helped and participated.  Then he showed the girls a dance and Constance got picked to help out.  She had a great time dancing and did a fantastic job!!

Saying the Ukrainian alphabet

Playing a drum with a horse hair tail.  Very odd instrument.  You play it by wetting your hands and pulling on the hair, not actually beating the drum.

Girls dancing, Constance right behind Serge

Girls flower dance

Look at that long instrument!

The first graders earned a reward for good behavior.  We started off by making popcorn then we ate it while we played a new game- Disney Hedbands.  I thought the kids did such a good job at giving clues.  They were having fun but also developing skills in describing things and using different words.  And they looked pretty darn cute in those mouse ear head bands :)

Alaina's turn

Constance's turn

Amree's turn

Avery's turn

Kanyon's turn

Ella's turn, not sure what happened to my camera here!!

I read the story "Snowmen at Night" and we did a writing project with it.  First the students wrote what they would do if they were a snowman at night.  Then they created a snowman picture from tearing white paper.  I love that each of them is individual and unique!

Stay warm!!

~Ms. Anglin