Beginning of the Year Projects

We start our  year with the Getting Along Together program to build a classroom family and learn the expectations of our school community.  After reading A Rainbow of Friends by P.K. Hallinan we  created a rainbow using cut outs of our hands.    

We also read The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and wrote about how we were feeling on the first day of school.  We even made our own Chester Raccoons!

 

Another story we read about classroom rules and expectations was David Goes to School  by David Shannon.  We wrote and drew a picture of what David should do in school, as well ad did a guided drawing of the character David to practice using our active listening skills.

 

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Mrs. Dryzal

Our Classroom

 Our calendar area

 We sit in teams in first grade!

Our classroom library

 

View of our lockers and Happy Helpers chart

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Mrs. Dryzal

Summer Learning

Our students learned a lot this school year!  Please help them maintain all their gains by having them read for 2-3 hours a week this summer!

Have a great summer!

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Mrs. Dryzal

W is for Water Day!

 Playing Duck, Duck, Splash

 Water Relays

A fun time was had by all!

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Mrs. Dryzal

Visor Day

Our firsties with the visors they decorated for V-Visor Day!

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Mrs. Dryzal

A to Z Countdown-Week of May 31

A to Z Countdown

Week of May 31st

Monday--No School  

Tuesday--V-Visor Day--We will make our own personalized visors!

Wednesday-W--Water Day--Bring a change of clothes because you may get WET!

Thursday--X-eXtraordinary Awards Day

Friday--Y--Year End Clean Up!--Make sure you bring a bag to school!

Monday--June 6th--Zip and Zoom out of School!

Have a super Summer!

Ice Cream and Fluency

My upper level first grade readers have been working on this fluency packet during our intervention

time for the last 9 weeks.  Most of my students have improved their fluency by at least 10 wcpm, and even as much a 30 wcpm.  Each passage is paired with comprehension questions and often times a writing project.  If there wasn't one included, I would do writing workshop with the students after we did our daily fluency practice.  This week we've been reading the passage Ice Cream.  The we wrote about a time we ate ice cream.  The students really enjoy the themes.   Here's a link to Courtney Keimer's Unit on TpT.  Below is a photo of our ice cream stories. 

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Mrs. Dryzal