Halloween is in the air!

Fall is definitely in the air here in the midwest. I love Halloween! I love the decorations, the candy, the costumes- absolutely everything!



Spook-tacular 1st Graders

Each of the kids made a ghost for our bulletin board.  Some are walking dogs :) and some are wearing clothes :)

Here is a shot of the hallway outside my classroom.  It's a little off center buat thats the way it is for now!




Glow, Jack, Glow

This Glow, Jack, Glow pumpkin project was found in an old issue of Mailbox Magazine.  The students had a blast creating this 3 dimensional pumpkins.



Eerie Silhouettes

This might be my favorite art project to date.  I took profile pictures of my class and downloaded them to the computer, just to Word.  Then I found a clip art witch had and placed it on top of the pictures.  They were printed and traced on to black paper.  The kids should have actually been wearing a witch had when I took the picture but I did not have one available.  The kids's names are not on the front of this project, so parents and others have to guess who is who.



Painted Pumpkins









Last week we painted small pumpkins.  I am not a fan of carving pumpkins myself (GASP... I know, me- the big fan of Halloween) and the kids have just as much fun painting them.

~Ms. Anglin

Learning About Plants

Last chapter in Science we learned about plants.  We made a cool project that involved planting a lima bean in dirt and watching it grow.  The cool part about it is that we planted them in clear CD cases so we could see the roots and everything else growing.  I got this idea from someone else :) I am a pinterest fanatic and found it on there at 2busybrunettes.com. I forgot to take a picture so here is a picture of their example.



CD case plant

 When learning what the roots, stem, and leaves do for a plant I drew a picture on the white board so the students could actually see what I was talking about and what we were reading about. Air and light go in through the leaves to make food. The food travels down the stem to feed the plant. Water travels up through the roots and goes through the stem.



Flower Drawing

Then I turned my drawing into a poster to keep for the future.




Plant Poster



~Ms. Anglin

Fall art projects

Again, here I am playing catch up with some fall art projects we have created.  Project time is by far my favorite part of the week.  We do a project every Wednesday and sometimes Fridays.



Fall Leaf Rubbings

When the leaves started falling from the trees, but were still soft, I had my class bring leaves to school.  In science we were learning about plant parts and this project would tie in perfectly.  The students laid a piece of white paper on top of leaves and rubbed the wide side of a crayon over them.  I chose only fall colors for the crayons.  When the papers were filled with leaf rubbings we painted with brown water colors over the entire paper.  Then they used fancy scissors to cut around the edge of the white paper.  Lastly, the students backed their creations with fall colored construction paper. 




Button Trees

 My mom really wanted me to do this project, so I gave in ;)  Partners traced each others arms/hands and then they were painted brown.  After the paint was dry, the kids got to pick out buttons to glue on as leaves.

Fall projects... DONE :)

~Ms. Anglin

Better late than never...

Wow, I cannot believe it is already the end of the 1st quarter!  I have been busier than ever this school year it seems.  Hopefully I can quickly get you caught up on this school year.

Here is a fast tour of my 1st grade classroom.

I have genre posters hanging in the back of the room.  For each story we read out of our reading book, I have an arrow point to the genre the story is from.

The back of our room has our job board, in the news board, holiday/season board, and our vocabulary board.  The cupboards have my classroom management system on them.  The kids start the day in the green pocket, if they get a warning they move to the yellow pocket, and if they actually get in trouble they move to the red pocket.



Back of the room

 The calendar area of the room is where we start each day.  The person with the calendar job gets to put the number on the calendar.  They also fill in the sentences I have written beside: Today is (fill in day of the week). Today is (fill in date). Today it is (draw a picture of the weather).  We also have straws to count the days we have been in school and the 100 chart.  Under the calendar area there are paw prints with numbers on them.  They also count the days we have been in school.



Calendar Area

The library area of my room is probably my favorite, although my students don't use it as often as I would like them too :( There is a listening center with books on CD, a bean bag, a comfy chair, holiday/seasonal books, and an easel. I love all of my books and they are all labeled for Accelerated Reader (which we just started this year).

Library

On my closet doors I have a bunch of posters hanging.  There is a Reminder Board with all of our important things to remember throughout the week, Lost Tooth chart, Cafeteria Queen lunch menu, Top Banana aka Student of the Week, Hallway rules, how we get home from school, and a Reporting Vs. Tattling poster.

Closet Doors

Word Wall starting to fill up with new words!

Wild About Words

That's all I have time for now!  Off to a 5th/6th grade basketball game :)

~Ms. Anglin