Read Across America

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with a week-long Read Across America celebration at school.

Here's our schedule for the week:

• Monday-First Grade Pajama Day and Drop Everything AND Read Day...keep a book with you all day!
• Tuesday-School-wide BINGO and first grade field trip to Bodyology
• Wednesday-Storybook character day...dress up as your favorite storybook character
• Thursday-Cat in the Hat Day-wear red/white or a Cat in the Hat hat
• Friday-Read My Shirt Day...wear a shirt with words

We will also do several activities in class too to celebrate Dr. Seuss! Happy Birthday!

The 100th Day of school!

Tomorrow will be the 100th day of school! I can't believe that we've been in school for 100 days! We will celebrate tomorrow with a 100th day of school first grade rotation! We will create 100 day glasses, what will we look like when we are 100, 100 day necklace and what we would do with $100. Happy 100th day of first grade!

We've been busy, busy bees this month...here's a list of things we've done and learned about just in the month of February:

• Stanford Testing
• School-wide letter writing
• Grammar-how to make a sentence make sense
• Weekend News-adding detail sentences to make our news more interesting
• Reading-important parts of the story (beginning, middle and end)
• Field trip to the Kirkland Performing Arts Theater to see The Emperor's New Clothes
• Buddies-created Valentine's Heart Friends
• Friendship Week and Valentine's Day Week
• Art Docent-watercolor hearts
• Fairy Tales-Little Red Riding Hood-elements of a fairy tale
• Groundhog's Day
• 100th day rotation
• Health Rotation
• Chinese New Year-year of the tiger
• President's Day-what we would do if we were president

and there's so much more to come!