Learning in Room 23

In Science, we learned about Extinct and Endangered Animals.  Students chose one of each kind of animal and wrote why they were extinct or endangered. 

 A sample of student work.  

In Reading, students wrote about what they like to do inside and outside on a winter day after reading

the story The Ice Storm.  

 

Adventures in Writing

Students in Room 23 celebrated the 80th day of School with a visit from Zero the Hero! Students did a variety of base 10 activities, as well as crafted these snowmen using the number 80.

 

Students were "Blinging in the New Year" !  Each student wrote goals for the New Year....

 

...then decorated 2016 with glitter!

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Mrs. Dryzal

District Web Site

You can visit my District Website by following the link below:

https://sites.google.com/a/gjsd.net/mrs-dryzal/

On it you will find the goals for the weeks ahead in Language Arts, Science and Social Studies, as well as other district related links.

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Mrs. Dryzal

It's A New Year!

 

Wishing you and yours a happy new year!

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Mrs. Dryzal

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!

 

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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!

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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