Johnny Appleseed Week

 

 

On Johnny Appleseed's birthday, Miss Ash read the book pictured above to the students.  Then we did a descriptive writing project about an apple.  We webbed how the apple looked, smelled, tasted, felt, and sounded when we bit into it.  Then did a cloze activity filling in the blanks with words from our web.  After that, we tried two more kinds of apples and created a tally chart of our favorites.  Granny Smith apples won with 15 votes!   We also made a bar graph. 

 

 

 

On Friday, we made Crockpot Applesauce.  During homeroom, the children watched as the apples were peeled, cut and added to the crockpot. Then we added sugar, cinnamon, and a bit of water to the pot.  We stirred the ingredients, then the apples simmered on medium for 4 hours. 

 

 

Before we tasted our treat, the students and I did a shared writing of how to make applesauce.  We wrote then illustrated our sentences.  The students really enjoyed the applesauce as you can see...

 

 

 

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~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Community Helpers-Police Officers

 

Today we learned about another community helper, the Police Man and Police Woman.  We read a story from here and then made these Police figures.  The students then had to write one thing they learned about this important community helper. 

 



 

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~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Open House 2013

 

Open House was held on Wednesday night.  I was so happy to see so many families visiting our classroom.  It was nice to meet all of the parents and my student's siblings.  Above is a photo of our Super Stars work board with writing we did on the first days of school.

 

 

Above is our "School is Cool" display for Open House.  This craft and writing activity is from Miss Kindergarten and is available at Teachers Pay Teachers for FREE!  Click here for a link.

 

 

I love the sunglasses and...

 

 

...the hair!

 

Parents were greeted with a treat of mints....

 

...and students received a magnet with their initial for their super first grade work.

 

 

 

I also left paper for parents to write a note to their child for the next day.  This paper was also from TpT as part of an Open House package.

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

10th Day of School

 

Zero the Hero

 

 

Today Zero the Hero visited our classroom to celebrate the 10th day of school!  This adorable bear visits our class every 10 days until the 100th day of school.  He brings with him a special Math activity for us to do.   He reminds us of the special job of the number 0.  It's important to never leave it out!  Today we completed an activity sheet about the number ten and read the story of Zero the Hero.  The students really enjoyed our Math Lesson today!

 

 

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~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal