Friday, December 2 we spent the afternoon creating our very own Gingerbread Houses!  We would like to thank the parents who contributed graham crackers, frosting, and candy decorations so that we could make these adorable houses!  It was a fun afternoon.

70th DAY OF SCHOOL!

Wednesday, November 30 was our 70th day of school.  We celebrated zero and the number 70.  We created really cute Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeers!!

THANKSGIVING FEAST

Tuesday, November 22 first grade celebrated with their annual Thanksgiving Feast.  We had sub sandwiches, a variety of potato chips and pumpkin pudding!  Each student made their own pumpkin pudding and all agreed it was delicious!  Thank you to everyone who provided us with the ingredients needed for our sub sandwiches or with potato chips.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

Post Office Tour

Thursday, November 17 all first grade went to the Post Office to mail their Gingerbread Man post card to various schools around Kansas.  Students were able to put their post card in the outgoing mail slot then we went to the back, saw where our post cards landed and listened to Mrs. Stout give a great explanation of how mail is handled in Eureka.  We then posed for a picture in front of the Post Office.  Thank Mrs. Stout for the tour and Mrs. Carpenter (our school librarian) for setting up this activity

DINOSAURS!!

Friday, November 18 Ty Talley came to our classroom and explained facts about each of his 13 dinosaurs.  We enjoyed listening to him share his knowledge! Way to go Ty!!!

60th Day of School!

Friday, November 11 was our 60th Day of School!  We created turkeys to celebrate! (I had several students absent this day so not many are in the picture!)

Mrs. Countryman comes to visit!

Mrs. Countryman came to visit and talk with us this past Thursday.  She had us color Christmas themed pictures to be presented to community members who are shut ins.

NOVEMBER LATE START

We had a really different Late Start day in November!  We did a STEM activity where students had to create a tall tower with toothpicks, marshmallows, and gummy turtles.  I had 4 groups of students who worked together to create their tower.  Two groups were able to create a 7 inch tower that remained standing when they were finished.  All had a really good time attempting this task.
  We also created turkey glyphs by answering questions about our Thanksgiving traditions. The feathers are foods that they eat at Thanksgiving.

50th Day of School

Thursday, October 27 was our 50th day of school.  Didn't they make scary skeletons?!!

Halloween in Class 1C!!

 On Monday, October 31 we dressed and posed for this picture!  Then we paraded around the high school track.  After the parade we had a wonderful party provided by Jamie Lindamood, Charlee Simpson, and Raina Schwartz-Johnson.

Halloween reminder note!

Exploring pumpkins!

We just completed a unit on the pumpkin life cycle.  We watched a couple pumpkin videos, completed a pumpkin life cycle flip book, measured how tall, how big around, and how much our big classroom pumpkin weighed and we found out that a pumpkin can float!

40th day of school

Thursday, October 13 was our 40th day of school.  We  had a great time creating a pumpkin using the number 40 and counting to 40 several different ways.

Cowtown's County Fair Education Day

On Friday, October 7 First Grade went to Old Cowtown Museum's County Fair Education Day.  Students came to learn, experience, and participate life in the 1870's.  There were over 100 volunteers who demonstrated skills and crafts from that era.  Some of the activities we participated in were: watching a working blacksmith, operating a printing press, making bread, lifting a hay bale and grinding corn!  It was another wonderful event this week!!

Main Street Decorating

On Wednesday, October 5 First graders and their parents helped decorate Main Street in front of the Library!!  We had a great time decorating, eating a treat provided by parents, and visiting with each other.  It really was a wonderful evening!

30 Days of School!

On Thursday, September 29 we celebrated the 30th day of school.  We made 30 tally marks, drew 30 objects, wrote numbers to 30 and created a 30th day of school pig for our 100 days of school booklet.  

GERMS AND HYGIENE!

The week of September 19 we studied germs and hygiene.  To help  students understand about germs we read several books, completed a couple worksheets, put glitter on our hands to see how easy germs are spread,  and learned the saying, "Germs are in the air, germs are in the ground, Germs, Germs, are everywhere!!  We finished up our week by creating Germ Monsters!!

Friday, September 16 we had a Pep Assembly with the high school football team, band and cheerleaders.  The band and cheerleaders performed and then our Tiny Tornadoes  performed.  They all did GREAT!!  Mr. Davison the head football coach also lead us in a cheer for all to perform Friday night after the game.  It was the best Pep Assembly!!

Our 20th Day of School!

Thursday, September 15 was our 20th day of school!  We created these 20 dogs!  Aren't they just the cutest??  We also counted and drew objects to 20.

We are Class 1C Top Dogs!!

Friday, September 2, we listened to the story If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff and then each student created their own dog.  Don't they look amazing???!!!

THE 10TH DAY OF SCHOOL!

Wednesday, August 31 was our 10th day of school!  We learned about all the ways to make 10, we read some counting to 10 stories, and we created a craft for 10.  It was a good day!!

Welcome to Class 1C for the year 2016-17

We are the Top Dogs of Class 1C!!  We are excited for a fun filled year of learning and growing together!!  Come see us at work!

OUR FIELD TRIP TO SEE TARZAN AND TO TOUR FIRE STATION 37.

OFFICIAL PICTURES OF OUR TOUR

On Friday, April 29 we went to the Christian Youth Theater performance of TARZAN at Isley Elementary in Wichita, Kansas.  It was a very good play and we all had a great time watching it! We even got to practice being an ape and doing a Tarzan yell at intermission!  We then ate our lunch in their Science Lab as it was pouring outside and we couldn't go to a park!  We then went to the Wichita Fire Station 37 where Nathan Helten, Adeline's Dad is a firefighter.  The firefighters on duty that day gave us a very good tour of their trucks, where they sleep and eat, and how the students should not hide from firefighters if they are ever in a fire. An official photographer from Sedgwick County was there and took the pictures on the top.  You can find them on the Sedgwick County Government page on Facebook.

PAINTED LADY CATERPILLARS

Our Painted Lady Butterflies caterpillars have arrived!  We got them Tuesday, April 26.  Here they are on Thursday, April 28.  They have already grown some!  We are watching them eat and eat!  They should become chrysalis' sometime next week!!

WRITING TO 1,000

As students finish their 1,000 book we gather around them and cheer them on!!  Here Tanner is finishing his!  We have 11 students who have finished their book in our classroom.  We can hardly wait for all to finish!

EARTH DAY 2016

We wrote a story as though they were Earth and asked others to take care of them.  Students came up with really great ideas!  They know to take short showers, turn off lights when they leave a room, pick up litter, recycle, and reuse items that they can.  This is a few examples of our writing project.

Reader's Theater

On Friday, April 8 we acted out the story from our reading book, DO YOU LIVE IN A NEST?  It was a story about a bird that was coming to visit.  The characters were:  cricket, frog, turtle, dog, horse, lion, and bird.  All the animals worked together to make a nest for bird to stay in while bird was visiting.  The students did a very good job acting out the play!

Read and Romp!!

On Wednesday, April 6 we had our annual Read and Romp.  It was based around Aesop's Fables this year.  We would like to thank all the parents who volunteered to help with this.  It is always a very special day to the students.

Class Picture

Here's our class picture!!  

Crazy Sock Day!

We wore crazy socks today as part of our week celebrating Dr. Seuss!

Annual Dr. Seuss Reader's Theater

In celebration of Dr. Seuss' birthday the Marshall staff performed a readers theater of the Seuss book What Pet Should I Get. All 3 first grade teachers performed as per our usual tradition. Mr. Corns decided to join in the fun this year as well as Tammi Burtin from our district office. The students had a great time and cheered us on. Students also brought their stuffed animals and wore hats today as well

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