Science- A visit to the butterfly garden

Brayden and Jack. Two scientists hard at work!

Jacob

All of my scientists in the butterfly garden.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has nothing on this guy!!!

So today we visited our school's butterfly garden. We have been talking about our 5 senses and how scientists use their 5 senses to observe and record. When this adventure was planned I had not been to the garden in quite some time. Was I shocked???!!!! There are caterpillars and butterflies everywhere! It was so exciting to see the students running all around with their clipboards and recording the things they see, hear, smell, and touch!!! YEH- we left out taste! Not fun in the butterfly garden!

Hello from computer lab

We are visiting the computer lab for the very first time this year! Everyone is learning how to log in using their user names and passwords. We went to the website http://www.starfall.com/ to practice some phonics skills and to learn how to save a website in our favorites! WOW!!! We are learning so much each and every day! Well... time to go! We have a fire drill coming up this afternoon! Whew! Busy busy!!!!

Our first week together

We have had such a great week! Happy Friday!!!!!

2011-2012

We have had 2 great days so far! We have been learning all of the routines of first grade and everyone is catching on fast! We have been discussing making positive choices, R-E-S-P-E-C-T (you might hear them singing), and community! I am very excited about this school year and I have very high expectations for each and every student! I am really enjoying get to know everyone! Day 3 here we come!!!!!

I hope everyone is having a great summer! I miss you all!
 I am also looking forward to meeting all of my new first graders on August 19th at 2:00! See you then!

Buggin' Out!!!!

In our class for the past few weeks we have been learning about different types of insects. We wrote a report about spiders and about butterflies! We also learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly last week! Mr. Bill came to our class and helped create the most beautiful, cute, creative bulletin board EVER! We transformed each student into a BUG and displayed their hard work from the past couple of weeks. Now we have a wonderful springtime display in the hallway! Way to go first graders AND...Way to go Mr. Bill!!!!!

Jax Zoo

March 8, 2011

The Jax Zoo was so much fun! Thank you so much to all of the wonderful parents who went with us and helped so much! I could not have done it without you! We walked around the zoo to visit all of the animals. Then we went to a class about animal adaptations and we were able to pet a rabbit, a snake, a turtle, and we also saw an owl.
Here are some pictures of our latest adventure!

Triniti and Aryana

Riley and Makenzie

Andrew, Emily, Ashley, and Khalil inside the reptile house.

Siya, Lauren, and Kyra

Fun times!!!!

Mrs. Hall and the crew!

Andrew's mom and Aryana's dad's table at the picnic

Elijah's dad, Lauren's dad, and Emily's dad

Caleb and his dad...Mr.Bill!!!

Makenzie and her mom at the picnic

Wednesday March 2, 2011

Today we are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading his books and watching some of the videos. We also wrote stories about what it would be like if the Cat in the Hat came to our house. We had some guest readers come over from Target and read a story to us!

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

-Dr. Seuss

Jacksonville Giants

Today we had a flag raising ceremony and a teachers vs students basketball game to celebrate our Book of the Month, Salt in his Shoes. The book is about Michael Jordan's pursuit of his dream to be an awesome basketball player.
Two players from the Jacksonville Giants showed up and played in the game as well! After the game the players made a stop by our class to get a picture and sign a few autographs! (THANK YOU MR. BILL!!!!!)
What a great day today! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Rainy Day!

Mrs. Hall's thought for the day!

Rain rain go away, come again another day,
We want to go outside and play,
So we can stop inside PA!!!!

On a brighter note...

Thank you so much to all the parents who attended the awards ceremony this am.
I am so proud of all of the students! They have been working very hard! I am happy any day that we get to celebrate their acomplishments!

100th day of school

Thursday February 3,2011
 We have already been in first grade 100 days?? WOW! 80 more to go! Can you believe how fast the year is flying by?
Today we celebrated the 100th day by making snack mix (5 items x 20 of each = 100), making  necklaces from 100 fruit loops, puzzles with 100 pieces, and connect the dots 1-100!
It was a great day! We are all so much smarter and we had so much fun finding different ways to make 100! We also had 4 helpers from Mr. Hamilton's class join the fun! Check out our pics!





Riley and Aryana are making 100th day snack mix!







"This is harder than it looks", said Caleb as he and Ronnie and Ashley made necklaces out of 100 fruit loops!





Siya and Brady are putting together a hundreds chart puzzle. I think Siya is wishing for the snack mix center??!!






One of Mr. Hamilton's students' demonstrates as Cynthia, George, and Austin wait their turn!




Lauren, Andrew, and Makenzie are working hard on connect the dots 1-100!



mmmm mmmm cheesy!

Functional writing is the genre we are learning in Writer's Workshop! Functional writing is writing that we use everyday! We have made lists, written thank you notes, etc. We are now writing to tell our readers "how to" do something. For our very first topic we will be writing to tell someone "how to" make a grilled cheese sandwich! And what a better way to learn than make them in class! So today we got out our big class griddle and made yummy, delicious, buttery, crispy, grilled cheese sandwiches. ( The describing words could go on and on)
It was a real treat! We made a list of materials that are needed today and tomorrow, after visiting the computer lab, we will begin writing the steps in order. What a fun way to learn!
YUM!!!!!!
On Thursday we will go to Mrs. Kelley's kindergarten class and make grilled cheese sandwiches for them and read them our directions! We can't wait!