Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year's celebration 2/12/10

Today we celebrated Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year. We made a hat like Abe Lincoln's to keep our Valentines in. We learned that Abe Lincoln stored important letters in his tall hat so we thought we could store our important cards in a hat like his. We enjoyed eating a variety of Chinese foods at our party along with the sweets. Thanks to everyone for sending in different foods for us to try.

Thanks to our wonderful Moms for helping today!

Post Office Field Trip- Click on Link

Slide Show of Field Trip to Post Office- click here

Slide the speed bar to the turtle (bottom right) and then press the play arrow. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Birthday, CC! 1/29/10

CC celebrated his birthday with a giant cookie cake. We enjoyed sharing such a yummy treat with him. Thanks, CC and Mom!

Mom and big sis helped CC celebrate.
It was a beautiful day to celebrate outside.

BACK TO SCHOOL!!

As many of you know, I have gone back to school to earn a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership. I will try to keep the blog as current as possible but most of my evenings are spent working on my class work. I am still taking pictures and will get them posted as time permits! I know the children love to see themselves and what we have done at school. I hope the parents enjoy it as well.

2nd Semester!

Week have finished the first semester of first grade! I am very proud of everyone's progress so far. The second half of the year will be spent preparing your children for second grade. This means higher expectations in all areas... behavior, work ethics, penmanship, reading fluency, and mastering math! I will not be providing as much assistance when completing assignments... the children need to become more independent and complete assignments on their own. Their grades may drop a little initially but then should return to their normal level as they adjust to being more independent. I know they can do it!! Please feel free to schedule a conference if you have any concerns about your child's progress.

Short Week!

This was a neat experiment we did to separate colors. I had more pictures but somehow deleted them by accident! CC used a brown marker and had various colors that bled out of it when he got the coffee filter wet.

If you can tell me what colors we saw from the black markers and why you can pick from the treat box.

Happy Birthday, LM!

LM celebrated her birthday!