Symbols of the United States

Today, Ms. Bosley tried something new--research! We had never really done this before, so we decided to try an experiment to see how 6 and 7 year olds could do, and it worked beautifully!

Each small group of 3-4 students was assigned to a US symbol. They were to use provided books to "research" their symbol, then present the information to the class. Groups had to work together to locate answers to certain questions and some really wonderful discussions began! 

I was so proud to see the kids asking all sorts of questions and discussing information they were reading with each other! We will have to do this again soon!

 Dottie's group researched the Statue of Liberty

 Sofia and Claire researching the Washington Monument

 Researching the Capitol Building

 Emma and Chris learning about the bald eagle

 Rory and Medha researching the Liberty Bell

 We found the answer we were looking for! The Washington Monument is 555 feet tall!

 Time to present

Inventors

Mrs. Bosley taught a unit on inventors! This unit was full of deep thinking questions, higher level thinking and applying the knowledge of inventors to ourselves. Check out the pictures below of the finished product-most of the class's favorite invention-the ipod!

 Emma's invention

 Emma's Colorful Sock!

 Favorite part of our iphone

 Top row of ipod apps

 Top row of ipod apps (opened)

1st Flap-Definition of an inventor

2nd Flap-Inventions we can't live without

3rd Flap-Garrett Morgan (invented the stoplight)

 2nd Row of ipod apps

  2nd Row of ipod apps (opened)

                   1st Flap-Thomas Edison (invented motion picture)
             2nd Flap-Wright Brothers (invented airplane at Kitty Hawk)
       3rd Flap-Alexander Graham Bell (invented telephone and the first words that were said on it)

3rd Row of iphone apps

1st Flap-Henry Ford invented the car (we assembled our cars using an assembly line!)

2nd Flap-Steven Jobs (creator of Apple)

3rd Flap-Create your own invention (This was so fun!)

This project was so much fun! It is wonderful when great teachers can work together to come up with an enriching activity by working together. Thanks to Charly Stagg, Melanie Duhrkopf and Devon Bosley for making this project rock!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was a blast! Check out the pictures to see how awesome our day was!

 Brock's Valentine's Box

 Boys in red!

 Kate's Box

 Melissa with my Valentine gift!

 Jammin' out to their ipods!

 Ryan's rockin' out!

 Dottie's sundae

 Ben with a cherry on top

 Sister love

 Yum!

Thank you for donating food for families who need it! And thank you to Joanna Skare for organizing all of this!

How To Stories

January writing was all about how to stories. We learned how to write how tos and how to make them better. Check out pictures from our publishing party. The kids got to make supplies out of paper. When they met with their partner, they read their story to see if their partner could complete the task in their how to. It was a blast and they did an awesome job!

Happy 100th Day!

We made it to the 100th Day of School! We sure are 100 days smarter. We celebrated all day doing activities that involved the number 100. Check out what we did!

 Rory turned his number 100 into a dumbbell! 

 Peyton's 100 is now a monster truck! 

(Don't you love his hat? 10 strips + 10 stickers or stamps on each strip=100 things!)

 Logan and Brock made 100 with their fingers

 Ms. Bosley teaching us how to make ourselves when we turn 100 years old! Wrinkly!!!

 Ben at 100 years old

 Lots of old ladies and men!

 Sofia at 100!

 Getting 100 autographs from other first grade friends!

100 day snack (10 different snacks, 10 of each item = 100 pieces!)

Christmas All Over Again

It feels pretty weird posting about Christmas on Valentine's Day... Anyways, here is our WEEK OF FUN! This was the week before we let out for Christmas break and had the theme days that we even got to dress up for! See all the pictures below for some of the rockin' fun Christmas activities!

Reindeer Day

 Peyton and Dottie are working on a writing activity-What would happen if I grew antlers? There were some pretty great problems and solutions in these stories!

 Emma is drawing herself with antlers! These pictures were so cute!

 Logan and Brock hard at work on reindeer antler stories!

 Love the antlers and red noses!

Gingerbread Day

 Making real gingerbread ornaments... this dough is sticky!

 All ooey and gooey!

 Having too much fun!

 Chris figured out how much his gingerbread man is worth using the key below. Love the speech bubble :)

 The key to finding out how much your gingerbread is worth. They loved this activity. It was challenging and fun at the same time!

Celebration Day

 Making reindeer food for Christmas night!

 Decorating the bag for Santa's reindeer!

 "Ice Skating" in the hallway... so fun!

 Sassy ice skaters

 Logan taking a rest

 An ice skating elf

 So sweet :)

 Dancing is fun!

 We had a blast at our party!

 Cookie decorating

Socks from Mrs. Guest! I love to give socks because my grandmother has given me a special pair of Christmas socks every year. It is a special memory and a fun tradition I loved sharing with the class.