It's 2016!

Hello! Welcome back to school! I can't believe it's halfway through the school year already!

We had a busy week! New seats, a new social skill, the start of a new science unit, a new chapter in math... We even set our own New Year's resolutions! No more coffee for me! (These kids are already keeping me accountable! "Is that coffee or tea, Miss Kloczko?")

The kids came up with most of the captions for the photos below—we thought our blog post would be a perfect place to practice using captions, one of the nonfiction text features we are studying!

We are studying Europe, so we have pictures of Europe in the classroom. -Kendall

Quite a lot of background knowledge, but SO many great questions.

This tells us how we can show compassion. Our class came up with all of the things on it. -Lorenzo 

These are team points for compassion. -Parker

The fallow deer, the only deer with flat antlers! I wonder what those are for? (And thanks, Kendall, for helping me color him!) -Miss Kloczko

This is "Owls Here, Owls There." -Allyson

This is the "Lady Liberty Bugaloo." France gave it to America. -Indigo

This chant is about teeth! -Aaqil

We wrote lists of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. -Carol

We used nonfiction books to help us find out what kind of teeth animals have. -Fabiana

This book had lots of animals! -Anahi

We made this chart together to sing a fallow deer song. -Aaqil

Check out a few awesome cinquain poems!

P is for Pilgrim in our America book. -Alex

Miss Susan from BASE was our mystery reader. -Carol

This week's signal words! Ask your first grader to explain one to you!

Check out our padlet below to see what the kids had to say about our week!