I Know a Bald Eagle...

Can you believe we have been back at school for a whole month already?! Here's what your first graders (and bald eagle experts) had to say about the fourth week of school:

We wrote stories about something disappointing. -Deniz

We read Bear Has a Story to Tell. -Kyara

We used the chromebooks to listen to books. -Alex

We made a song about skunks. -Jade
Have your first grader sing a song to you using our chart!

We did a fire drill. -Cedrus

We made bald eagles. We cut out our hands to make the wings. -Jaykob

We read part of the baby animals book. We learned about baby black bears. -Lorenzo

We watched part of Brother Bear because its setting is the coniferous forest. -Fabiana

We made another class book called Stuck. -Nya
Watch Oliver Jeffers read the original Stuck here!

We figured out that Chewbacca from Star Wars is a mammal. We know that because he has fur. -Damion

We read two books about bald eagles. -Anahi

We learned what oviparous means. We learned that bald eagles don't have sharp teeth to tear apart their food, but they do have sharp talons and a sharp beak. -Tanaya

We read Hello, Fredbird because Miss Kloczko likes the Cardinals. When I was in TK, Miss Kloczko liked the Giants. -Juan Carlos

We learned the word carnivore. -Aaqil

We did the E page in our America book. E is for eagle. We learned that skunk babies are called kits. -Anshika

We made the C page in our America book. C is for constitution. -Parker

We crumpled up the constitution to make it look old. -Isandro

We learned that the bald eagle only eats meat.  -Carol

Our third grade buddies came to read with us. I remember that when skunks spray it is called musk. -Ryan

We learned that the sum is the answer to an addition problem. -Jared

We learned that the bald eagle's wingspan can be up to 8 feet. -Cooper

The bald eagle is a symbol for the United States of America. -Kendall

A symbol is something that stands for something else. -Jules

We learned that the bald eagle has brown and white feathers. -Allyson

We are in the computer lab for the first time right now! -Indigo

The bald eagle's claws are called talons. -Lea

Baby bald eagles are called eaglets. -Tianna

We read Not a Box. -Liam

This week I received two bald eagles (one, a picture printed out from vacation and the other, drawn and labeled at home). Also, on more than one morning before school, I was presented with "a cone from a coniferous tree!" AND we met our stamina goal on Tuesday! We read for 20 minutes straight! (And we only stopped because we had to go to lunch!) -Miss Kloczko

Just for fun, check out our padlet from this week's homework! 

Have to share this too. :)

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Week 3!

Another busy week!

We made skunks during Fun Friday! -Aaqil and Lorenzo

We made a book called The Day the Playground Quit after we read The Day the Crayons Quit. -Nya and Carol
Watch the video below to hear the letter we wrote together from Basketball! Check the blog next week to see our finished class book!

The projector exploded yesterday during math. -Jade and Indigo

Miss Kloczko's salad exploded too. -Kyara and Anshika

We tried to read for 20 minutes without stopping. We almost made it to 5 minutes! -Isandro and Anahi

We got new colored pencils as a reward for making our work nice and neat! -Cedrus and Ryan

We learned some new routines for Star in Motion after we saw kindergarten doing them. We learned sky, T, H, V, tree trunk, bridge, and elbows, and head. -Jaykob and Alex

We revised our letters for The Day the Playground Quit. -Tianna and Fabiana

We read Night Animals. -Juan Carlos and Cooper

We learned what "revise" means. -Damion
*Watching the video below, I just realized the kids are saying "to look at something again and prove it," rather than improve it! :) Looks like we get to use this signal word again on Monday! 

We read Stuck and it was very funny. -Deniz and Lea

We read Tea Party Rules by Ame Dyckman. -Parker and Jared

We learned the word "vast." It means huge, gigantic, or enormous. -Allyson and Tanaya

We learned about the skunk. Its spray is called musk. -Kendall and Jules

We played a special version of Connect Four to practice addition and we read the story Bravest of the Brave. After hearing the story, the kids wrote their own stories about when they've had to be brave! I loved listening to some of the kids share! -Miss Kloczko

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A New Book!

Today in first grade, we published a new class book, Today I Had the Blues...

First, we read Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford Frame. (If you click on the title, you can hear the book read aloud!) The first time we read it, it was a little confusing! But after reading it again and talking about the book, we realized that the author was actually talking about feelings! We talked about what it means to feel "blue," and what kind of things make us feel like that. We even talked about what "purple," orange," and "red" might feel like, and that different colors might feel different for different people!

We talked about how this book is like a poem almost,  that when you read it, you can really hear the author's voice. Then, we all tried it on our own! Everyone was so creative, and our book turned out awesome.

Watch the video version of our class book below, or check it out in our classroom library! Thanks for reading!

Today I Have the Blues... by Miss Kloczko's Class on PhotoPeach