Let's Celebrate!

We started with our book exchange! Each student brought in a book to be given to a boy or a girl. 

We sat in a circle and passed the books when the Christmas music started to play. 

When the music stopped, it was finally time to open!!

We are all so excited to receive a new book!

We said, "Thank you" to the person who brought that book.

I was so impressed by the way your children were so gracious and respectful during our gift-giving time. Not one person complained about the book they were given and everyone said, "Thank you!" What a wonderful bunch of first graders!

 Next, we opened our present from Miss Cain. 

Awesome! Another book to read!

We were so excited to read our new books, that we started right away!

We love to share books and read with each other! 

Lily Z. and Lexi love their books!

Kaidence and Owen were so excited to read over Christmas break!

What a great group of boys!

Character Winners for November

Here are our character winners for November... Lily Z. and Grant L.

                                         Congratulations!

Writing Celebration!

 Our second writing celebration was wonderful! This writing unit focused on writing small moments. When we write a small moment, we want to focus on one event that has happened to us in our lives. For example, we wouldn't want to write about our entire birthday party, we would want to write about just opening presents or just eating cake. If we can zoom in on one moment, it forces us to stretch out the story with details, which is what good writers do.

We have a juice toast before we start reading our stories.

It is such a great feeling to accomplish our goals!

After we toast, we each take turns reading our stories to the class. Our book is displayed on the document camera for everyone to see!

New Spot for Newsletters

The newsletters will now be published under the "Newsletters" heading at the top of the home page:) Thanks!

Miss Cain

Thanksgiving is for giving thanks!

This turkey does not want to be eaten for Thanksgiving so he decides to run and disguise himself  so the farmer can't find him! We disguised our turkey's too and wrote about what they would say! Here is what we came up with...

Lily's turkey was disguised as a girl. 

Logan's turkey will not be seen by the farmer in this Santa suit!

We wrote what the turkey would say when the farmer asked him if he was a turkey.  

Brynn disguised her turkey as a tree.

Then we shared what we wrote!

 We also made a turkey with lots of feathers to help us remember the long vowel sounds!

We like to help each other out!

Here is what one page of our final product looked like:) This was a lot of work, but really fun!

VIP Days

Welcome to Jamestown!

Check out that delicious food!

 Here are some pictures of us with our VIPS!

We practiced our reading choices too!

Logan loves to do Listen to Reading.

We made a picture for our class book of something we like to do with our VIP.

Thank you VIPS for coming to visit our school and classroom!!