Happy Birthday, JMC 10/16/09

We interviewed JMC today for his birthday book. It was fun to learn some new things about him. We will be busy illustrating his pictures for him!

What an awesome cupcake cake Mom and Dad made. It was delicious as well. Thanks for sharing it with us.


Celebrating with JMC! Now he is 7 years old!!

Garden trip 10/16/09

We visited the community garden again today. We had a lot of weeding to do before we could plant our new plants and seeds. We divided the garden into fourths and each group got busy!! I believe the girls in my class won... they worked very hard. The boys worked hard as well but I believe Mrs. Ward worked the hardest!! I'm not sure who won from Mrs. Moses' class... boys or girls. In the end, the garden was clean and the new plants were in the ground and ready to grow. Ride by and check on it when you get a chance. Feel free to water it while you are there since we only get to go check on it every few weeks. It looked like it might rain any minute so we made a quick trip back to school. We made it without getting wet!! At least it was cool.

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Thanks, Mrs. Johnson, for helping the girls with their weeding.

The boys are working hard, too.

Mrs. Moses' class is working hard to clean the garden.


Weeds, weeds, weeds!! We do have a few new plants coming up!

Almost ready to plant!

Planting lettuce!

Whew.... that was a lot of hard work. We will need a break when we get back to school!

A week of leaning! 10/15/09

JM enjoys working while sprawled on the floor. Seminoles and Tigers are working on subtraction by counting back

using a number line.Look at that concentration... making sure

she gets it right! Good job, KG.

SH staying focused and getting his subtraction correct!

NE working at the table... using a number line to subtract.

BS helping CA figure it out.

Eagles learned to count pennies and dimes today. They
decided they would much rather have dimes because you
can buy more! We practiced counting by 10's and 1's. We
have also been working on telling time to the hour and
half hour. We are focusing on getting the hour hand half
way between the two numbers when it is half past the hour.



Mrs. Terhune has been helping out this week
while Mrs. Thompson is out of town. This group is reading about teamwork and our sound focus has been final blends -nd, -nt, -nk, and -st. I hope everyone is ready for their spelling test tomorrow! Our words are already getting harder.

BL and KN are partner reading their story. This group's
unit theme has been about being afraid. Then boy in our
story this week is afraid of the dark! We have had fun
learning what everyone is afraid of. Mrs. Ward used
to be afraid of the dark when she was little!

GT, AJ, and CC reading their story.

AJ and MG partner reading.

Everyone loves to sit in MY CHAIR!

It is very comfy and fun to be like the teacher.

Our new TOILET is here!! 10/8/09

Our Tiny Toilet!! It overflowed almost

daily and was a challenge to use!!A toy was discovered stuffed in the pipe...

no telling how many years it had been down there!

Yeah! Our new full sized toilet is here.

It is a power flusher (or at least it sounds like one!) and we haven't overflowed all week! I will take the loud flushing instead of overflowing any day!!!

Smokey Bear Visits ABC School 10/8/09

October is Fire Safety month so we spent some time talking about fire safety. We also made fire engines as an art project. Finally, the best part of fire prevention month... a visit from Smokey Bear. We went to the library and Mr. Taranto from the forestry division gave a brief talk about fire safety in the forest. Then Miss Odessa read us the true story of Smokey Bear. Look at how well behaved we are as we listen to the speaker! The kids really enjoyed the presentation.

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Mr. Taranto explains forestry fire safety to the whole 1st grade. We also learned about controlled burns and what Smokey's 4 fire rules are. See if your child can remember them!

As the children chanted "Smokey, Smokey"

he rambled into the room for an up close visit!

Smokey even let us take a class picture with him!

He also had wonderful goody bags for everyone.

BS, JP, and DV posing with Smokey.

BL and KN enjoyed bear hugs!

Smokey enjoyed hugs from AJ and GT.

AJ and SH hanging out with Smokey.

A trio of friends (MG KG and NE) posing with Smokey.

LM and QC wanted hugs, too!

JC and CC get a big hug!

CA and MM enjoying a visit with Smokey!

More flubber! 10/5/09

I missed LM and MM mixing their flubber!

Looks like they are having lots of fun!

Making flubber! 10/5/09

What a great day we had making flubber. It was really cool to mix different liquids and have them turn into such cool, rubbery flubber! A little glue, water, and borax (and coloring of choice) and it's like magic.... stretchy, cold, rubbery flubber.

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Getting ready to add the Borax and water mixture so the molecules

will stick together and make flubber.

Ohhh, what is this making? The look on MG's face says it must be something gooey!

KN and NE.... what is this stuff??

AJ and CA... digging in!

Just what little boys love... gooey flubber!

CC and JC are having a blast.

Little girls love it, too..... maybe!

KG and QC aren't quite sure!

GT and DV mixing and stretching their flubber.

It's almost ready to put on the table and play!

JP and BS are almost finished mixing.

Look at CA's face in teh background!!

Just why I love teaching!

MG and AJ mixing with their hands now!