Mrs. Jan Locher's First Grade Blog

Who knew these Gardens could be so beautiful!  What a perfect day for a field trip!  Everything was amazing!  We learned so much from our 45 minute lesson and then were able to walk and see so much.  What a great day!

Oh what fun we had on a hot day in the sun!  We loved it and I slept so well Friday night!

Hands-on Learning is always fun when you make pizza’s, even though these are not the kind of pizza’s to eat.  We can pretend!  We had halves, quarters and thirds for this activity.

To go along with our study of Resources as well as Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse – the students used recycled material to create their own “Litter Bugs.”  They named their bugs and they wrote about how their bugs could help the Earth.  We made a “Litter Bug” Museum and invited all of the other First Grade Classes to come and view our museum.  Several other classes participated, so we were able to view their museums as well.  THIS WAS A FUN AND GREAT ACTIVITY!  WAY TO GO MRS. LOCHER’S CLASS!

We had a lesson on Bullying this past week in our classroom.  The students were able to act out with puppets different situations of either bullying others or being bullied.  I thought this was a GREAT lesson!  Please ask your child about it!  Mrs. Cribbs our School Counselor brought up some great ideas for the class in case anything like this happens to them!

HERE ARE OUR LITERACY CENTERS FROM FRIDAY!  IT WAS A WELL EARNED ‘FUN FRIDAY’  WE WORKED HARD AND PLAYED HARD!

In math today we explored how to turn shapes into people.  The students did a great job with this.  We will be exploring other shapes for the rest of the week and find right angles and even discuss the vertex of some shapes.

We explored the idea of gases and how they take up space in our classroom.  We started with bubble gum and did our best to blow bubbles, we then moved to bubbles and blew them outside, lastly we blew up our own balloons.  We realized that gas can take up space but we can’t see it.

We enjoyed our Math Centers as we continued our study of money.  This was a fun unit of study and we will review money at some level for the rest of the school year!

Here are our favorite Book Reports!  We had traditional books and new books!  It was a great collection and a lot of fun!