Halloween Craziness!!

Halloween is next week... it feels like yesterday was October 1st!  I can't believe it!  The classroom is looking particularly spooky this time of year and I love it :)

We are all Spook-tacular 1st Graders.  They loved making their own ghosts.  Some are on skateboards and some are wearing clothes and jewelry!  So creative and SpOoKy!

 

I saw an idea on Pinterest and really wanted to do it.  I felt a little crazy for thinking of trying it with 6 and 7 year olds.  GLITTER pumpkins.  This is by far my favorite way to decorate pumpkins right now!  I don't like carving them, and we usually paint so I wanted to try something different.  It turns out all we needed was some patience and a little Elmer's Spray Glue and we were good to go!  I think they look like pumpkin shaped Christmas ornaments. And who doesn't love Glitter!!??

 

We teamed up with the 2nd grade class and made a Halloween treat.  Halloween Hands!! Made from gloves, candy corn, pop corn, and a fancy spider ring.  Here is our whole group with their completed hands.

Last but certainly not least-our Eerie Silhouettes for the hallway.  This is such a cute project, definitely one of my favorites.  I took profile pictures of each child, placed a clip art hat on their picture on the computer and printed.  Then we traced, cut them out, and glued to paper that we painted with water colors on.  I keep telling myself to by a cheap witches hat for this project but never remember.  Clip art does just fine!

 

 

 

Happy Haunting!

~Ms. Anglin

October Fun!

October has brought many fun things to our classroom. 
 
We learn about different character traits to be good people through out the year, every month is a new trait.  October was our first month for Character Counts and we learned about Trustworthiness.  We learned that trustworthy people are honest, keep promises, do what they say they will do, and can be trusted to do a job.

We wore blue to celebrate trustworthiness.

 
October 6-11 was Fire Safety Week.  We spent the week talking about fire drills, escape routes, smoke detectors, and firemen.  We ended our week with a field trip to the fire hall.  The firemen taught us about they gear and uniforms.  We also got to see all of the fire and rescue trucks.  We even got to take turns spraying the hose!

Fireman Wayne showing us how they enter a house.



Checking out the Jaws of Life!



Thank you Firemen for everything you do!

 Hope you enjoyed our October fun so far!

~Ms. Anglin



I fell behind on fall!

I can't believe the time has gone by so fast and I haven't posted in forever!!  Here is a little catch up on how our fall has gone.
 
We made some fall trees to hang in the hallway.  We traced our hands and arms and painted them brown.  Then we painted puzzle pieces fall colors and glued them to our tree trunks.
 

 

 



We learned about plants in Science this past chapter.  We "grew" some lima beans in the window.  The side with no water didn't grow but the side with the water did sprout!

 

We also made some flowers for the hallway.  After we constructed them we had to put on the correct labels for the plant parts that we learned about.

 

 

 

In math we practiced Addition and Subtraction using counters.  We had a lot of fun shaking the counters- and chasing them around the room!

 

 

 



 

I hope I didn't miss too much! I'll try to get better about posting :)

 

~Ms. Anglin

 



Homecoming Week

This past week was our school's homecoming.  We sure have lots of fun during this week with dress up days.
 

Monday- Camo or Pajama Day   

Camo

 

Pajamas

 

Everyone who dressed up Monday

Tuesday- Neon Day

:)

Wednesday- Cross Dress or Twin Day

Me in my "Twin"s shirt and MaKaylah dressed like her brother.

 Thursday- Nerd or Redneck Day

Nerds

Sorry teacher friends, I had to do it!!

Teachers may have more fun dressing up!

 

Yeah, pretty sure we do :)

Rednecks

Everyone who dressed up on Thursday

 Friday- Ready for the Parade!  Our homecoming parade theme was Disney.  Our movie was Monsters Inc.  We wore little Mike's around our necks and our sign said "We've got our EYE on the Lions".

We had an awesome week!

 

I hope your homecoming week is/was just as eventful as ours!

 

~Ms. Anglin

 



4.5 weeks already??

I cannot believe today is the midterm of the 1st quarter!  It feels like we just started school last week.  We have been busy in the classroom lately though. 
 

       


















We used the site www.tagxedo.com to create shaped word clouds that told about us.  We included our names, ages, pets, favorite sport, food and game.  Then we picked our favorite shape.  I think they turned out pretty cool!  All of our art word gets hung under or above our name card that we made.  They show how each of us are different!



Before our art project.



During our art project.
 



 
 

 

 

Our finished products.  Beautiful sunflowers made with buttons.  They turned out so cute and each one is unique!

 

In Math we stared exploring addition and subtraction this week.  To help us remember the key words to look for in a number story we made a couple crafts.  Addition key words are in all, add, and plus.

 

 

All of our Addition Men hanging in the hallway.

 


Meet Addition Man!

 

 Introducing Subtraction Man!  His key words are: are left, take away, minus, and subtract.



Subtraction Man

All of the Subtraction Men hanging out.

 












In Social Studies we are working hard learning about rules, groups, and schools.  Here we are working on the SmartBoard and our workbooks.




See you next time!

~Ms. Anglin

New Kiddos, New Fun

We are 3 days into the school year and BOY is it hot!  Today we got out early because it was so hot.  A heat index of 98 degrees is too hot for our non- air conditioned school.  My class was full of a bunch of troopers!  We worked hard and played hard even though it was so hot.  Here are some things from the first day of school.

 

Project to go along with "The Kissing Hand".  A hand print with a foam heart glued in the middle.

 

 

Magnets made with each students' first initial.  They painted their letter and I hot glued to a clothes pin.  Magnets are glued on the back of the clothes pins.  These were sent home with a note saying to hang it on the fridge to keep important first grade papers safe.

 

 

Here is my group of silly, fun, creative, smart first graders :)

 

Happy Teaching!

~Ms. Anglin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to School!

Well, that came faster than I thought it would!  Here are a few pictures of some new things in my classroom and my new kiddos.

 

A new addition to my front wall are touch point posters.  I am hoping incorporating touch points into our math lessons will mean counting on fingers will not be needed :)

 

 

My fabulous chair that I painted this summer!  I will be the old lady in the chair during reading chart time.  Also the kids will be using this when presenting their work to the rest of the class.

 

 

In the back of my room I added another table for our technology center.  There are little computers back there to do Accelerated Reader on, we won't start that until September.  Each of the students in our school has a computer to work on.  Different things I plan to do on the computers are Accelerated Reader, IXL math, Study Ladder, and some projects in the classroom.  We have been in school for about 3 days so far and I think every single student has asked when we get to use the computers.  Also in this area are books on CD.

 

 

This is a tracking system I plan to use for AR.  Each student has a star on the side.  The star will move to show progress.  The steps are "I can log in by myself and pass a test", 5 points, 10 points, 15 points, 20 points, 25 points, and 50 points.

 

 

The back wall in my classroom got a huge overhaul this summer.  First, my bulletin boards got recovered in animal print paper.  You can only see a couple, I will post more pictures of them later.  At Michael's I found leopard print and zebra stripes paper.  I LOVE them!  The animals at the top of the wall will be used to track Math Fact/Flash Card progress.  Each animal has a Velcro circle in the middle, and I will attach the addition or subtraction facts (+0,+1).  As each student passes a level through timed tests, I will move their marker (grass patches) to show progress.  The white rope/ribbon with the clothes pins will be used to show off art work given to me by students.

 

 

My desk.  When I first started coming in at the beginning of August to work in my room, I chose to work on projects like this instead of real work like papers and scheduling :)  I like the way it hides my boring, plain, ugly metal desk.  I use magnets to attach things to it.

 

 

I found this idea on Pinterest.  I got these letters at Hobby Lobby (they are wooded) and glued magnets on the backs.  If the class is being too loud, you take down a letter.  If you take down e, s, i and only have NO left, the class can no longer talk while working.  I plan to use this during free time or group project time.  Although, I hope to never get down to just NO :) A teacher can dream right??

 

 

 

Here is our class cactus.  I hope we can keep it alive!  Monday's are cactus watering days and the helper was super excited to do that today!

 

 

Hope you all like my classroom additions!  There will be more to come I'm sure!

 

Happy Teaching!

~Ms. Anglin