Community Leaders Visit

 

 

Our City Manager, Mr. Carlos Gunby, and Assistant Manager, Mrs. Komar, came to West Side Elementary on Friday to visit the first graders as part of our Community Leaders, Rules and Laws unit in Social Studies.

 

 

Mrs. Komar shared information about the different departments in City Hall.

             Mr. Gunby shared the importance of our Police and Fire Departments and stressed that we are the ones who

can make a difference in our community.

 

We appreciate their time and sharing the important aspects of community government with us!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Halloween in Room 23

Our Girls

 Our Boys

 Our Class

Fellow First Graders

 

Watching the Parade of Classes

 

Our Frankenstein Math...isn't he the cutest?  We practiced using the "Frankenline" to count on and back, then created our own Frankensteins.

Thank you to all of the families who sent in treats, cupcakes, plates, pizza and drinks to make our Halloween party "spook-tacular"!  You are the best!

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Producers and Consumers

Welcome!

Over the past week we've been studying  goods & services, and producers & consumers. To culminate our Community Jobs unit, the students participated in a snack mix assembly line.  

We discussed how a real assembly line is designed to work and how we were going to use the process to produce our own snack mix. Each student had a job either scooping items in the bag (Thank you parents for your donations!), labeling & closing the bags, or team supervisor.  We divided into two teams and tried to see who could produce ten bags first.

 

The children  had a great time and got a hands-on opportunity to experience being a producer and producing a good. They also got to be a consumer when they took the snack mix home to share with their families.  It was a really fun activity!

 

Our finished product!

 

 

Snack Mix Assembly Line Activity Sheet is available here. 

Thank you to the Polka Dot Teacher for the inspiration!

 

 

One of our consumers....

 

...and another!

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

 

Mrs. Dryzal

October Projects

 

Pumpkin Life Cycle Displays

 

 

 

Super Readers Score Sheet and Adventures in Writing

 

Parts of a Pumpkin

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Pumpkins, Pumpkins

 

 

This week during our current integrated Science and ELA unit, we are learning about plants, and more specifically the pumpkin plant.  Above is a picture of the parts of the pumpkin plant that our students created.  We also made a model of the life cycle of a pumpkin plant, as well as a flip book showing what all plants need to grow!  During the remainder of our unit, we will be using the writing process to describe a pumpkin using adjectives.  Keep an eye out here for more photos to come!

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Math Top It

 

One of the ways our first graders learn Number Sense is by playing a game called Top-It with a partner.  Each student flips over a card, says the number, then the student with the larger number keeps both cards.  They really enjoy seeing who "wins" each round.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Our Classroom Wish List

These are a few of the things that we are in need of during the school year:

tissues

baby wipes

hand sanitizer

storage bags quart
   gallon
   sandwich (resealable)

paper plates

paper towels

antibacterial soap

empty baby food jars

 

Donations of the above listed items will be greatly appreciated. 

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal