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

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

Christmas in First Grade

 

Snowflake the Elf spent all of December with us.  In the photo above, she built a tree using cubes.

 

 

Our December Door

 

Our Hallway Decor

We visited several countries during our Christmas Around the World Unit.  The photo on the left shows a cracker from England, and the photo on the right shows a poinsettia from Mexico.

 

 

Santa visited West Side on December 18th and brought us all a t-shirt! 

 

Thank you P.I.E.!

 

We are looking forward to January!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Gingerbread Houses

 

As part of our Holiday Traditions Around the World Unit, we made Gingerbread Houses after learning about Germany.  The houses were constructed of graham crackers and a variety of items, generously donated by student's families.

 

 

 

 

I think they came out beautifully!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Southmont and Westwood Fire Company Visits for Fire Safety Week

 

On Wednesday, the Westwood and Southmont VFDs visited West Side to teach our first graders about fire safety and their role in the community. 

 

Chief Joel showing the children the gear firefighters wear when battling a fire.

 

Our Class

 

Thank you for stopping by!

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

JPD visits West Side's First Grade

 

Officers from the Johnstown Police Department visited West Side Elementary on Friday, as part of our Community Unit in Social Studies. 

 

 

Rocky, of JPD K-9, paid us a visit. 

 

Rocky in action

 

Our class checking out the armored vehicle. 

 

Miss Taylor, the class and me

 

Thank you JPD, Officers Komar, Kabler , Kanuch and Rocky for your visit!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

 

 

JAHA Visits Room 23

 

As part of our Social Studies unit on Communities, Miss Taylor invited Miss Melody and Miss Kaytlin from the Johnstown Area Heritage Association shared a presentation about the impact felt on our community when a business opened and the impact on our community when a business closed.   

Miss Melody sharing an antique fence post top that was once made in Johnstown.

 

 

Miss Kaytlin holding a die used to cast wheels made of steel.

 

 

Filling a bucket to show what happens when business is plentiful in the city.

 

 

Comparing the buckets when businesses have left the city.

 

Thank you to JAHA, Miss Melody and Miss Kaytlin for their wonderful presentation!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal



Miss Ash's Volcano Lesson

This picture slideshow personalized with Smilebox Miss Ash is a senior education student from UPJ and has been observing and participating in our class for the last eight weeks of school.  This is a slide show of the lesson she taught today in Social Studies class about Volcanoes.  Miss Ash is also a GJSD graduate and will do her student teaching in January.  We will miss her and wish her all the best! ~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. 

 



 

Thanks for stopping by!

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal