Celebrate!

Our Celebration of Learning display

 What a fun night we all had on Thursday! It was a treat to hear the first graders sing, and the appreciation of their poetry collection was evident as families perused the table that show cased their hard work. They had fun seeing their friends as well. Thanks for coming!

Our class display

We continued to learn about stars this week, specifically constellations. Everyone wrote a page of facts about stars and then created the big dipper with sticker stars. Next week, we will use flashlights and paper templates of this constellation to try out some class room star gazing ourselves.

The Big Dipper

Another space shirt!

Love you to the moon and back, cards

Happy Father's Day

Two friends had a great time reading aloud for us - great fluency and expression! Another group performed the Reader's Theater play, Rumpelstiltskin. We were so impressed by the animation that they put into it!

Partner performance!

Reader's Theater

 We continue to love our read-alouds, and this week we read The Littlest Matryoshka. It featured a set of nesting dolls shipped to America from Russia and followed the adventure of the tiniest one when she was lost from the others. Bringing in my own sets was a fun sight for everyone. 
We laughed aloud when reading Spoon - who makes up a story about a spoon anyway?! It was actually a great lesson in being happy that we are ourselves, and not someone else (spoon wished he was a fork, knife, or chopsticks until he learned how unique he was himself). 
We also read The Important Thing by Margaret Wise Brown and followed up by writing our own example inspired by hers.

Such a cool set

I'm glad I'm me

We will send home our related writing soon

Next Thursday we are looking forward to the Pizza Party! Our class collected the most boxtops (almost 900!) so are treated to a pizza lunch.

What a beautiful, sunny weekend - hope you enjoy every minute. Happy Father's Day to the dads and grand dads too!

Mrs. Dagley