Teacher Appreciation Week and the Sacramento Zoo!

We made a sloth for Fun Friday. -Fabiana

We learned about the keel-billed toucan. It has a special feet for grasping branches and hopping. -Indigo

We learned about the spider monkey. -Parker

We read Where is the Party? You should read it because it has a surprise ending. -Anshika

We put rosettes on a jaguar. Rosettes are spots. -Cooper

We took a spelling test with some consonant-l-e words and kn words and igh words. -Damion

We made scarlet macaws. -Lea

We learned that the keel-billed toucan grabs onto its food and then flips it into its mouth. -Anahi

On writer's workshop today we wrote on fancy paper. -Mati

Spider monkeys have long arms to reach branches. -Jaykob

We went on a field trip but I didn't go. Allyson's mom sent pictures to my mom and she sent a picture of an animal with a pink stomach that looked like a rat. It was on its back. -Juan Carlos

We learned a new signal word, security. -Alex

A keel-billed toucan's beak is colorful. -Aaqil

There is going to be a show at the end of the year of America songs. -Ryan

We learned new songs. I like them. My favorite is the first one. -Jared

At the zoo we saw a jaguar and its tail was missing. -Jade

We saw a real red panda and it was cute. -Tanaya

When we were doing the songs, one of the songs is "American Symbols on Parade." We saw a snow leopard at the zoo. -Tianna

My favorite animals at the zoo were the snow leopard and the giraffes. -Kendall

At the zoo, we dropped our scavenger hunt paper in the tortoise cage. -Allyson

I finished my America book this week! -Carol

I finished my America book too! -Jules

It was Teacher Appreciation week and we made our teacher happy. -Isandro

On Friday for Writer's Workshop, we did writing all about us. -Nya

My favorite animals from the zoo were the jaguar, lion, and snow leopard. -Cedrus

I got to stay in from recess for the first time to help my teacher with finishing my sloth and offering to help clean the classroom up. -Liam

Born to Be Wild 3D: Our Field Trip

Check out what some of our first graders had to say about yesterday's field trip to the IMAX theater downtown!

There was a big screen at the IMAX theater. -Cooper

My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach a tree and the tree fell. -Damion

I liked wearing the 3D glasses. -Aaqil

I liked the beginning when the screen turned on and there was a big circle and lasers. -Indigo

My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking from two milk bottles at the same time. -Parker

My favorite part was when the orangutan spilled the milk all over. -Alex

My favorite part was when the elephant poked his nose through the fence to drink water at the beginning. -Lorenzo

I liked when they let the orangutans back into the wild. -Anahi

I remember the part when the elephant was scared and bumped into the fence. -Kendall

I liked the part when the elephants were kicking the ball and it looked like it was going to hit our faces. -Allyson

I liked when we ate apples and grapes before the movie started. -Juan Carlos

I liked the part when the orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. -Nya

My favorite part was when the lady made friends with all of the orangutans. -Jaykob

The movie was all about elephants and orangutans. -Tanaya

I liked the part when the woman was feeding the baby orangutan a bottle. -Jared

I liked the part when the baby orangutan was holding onto its mother when she was trying to swing to another branch. -Carol

My favorite part was when the baby orangutan was about to fall out of the tree. -Tianna

Thanks for reading! Leave a comment on our post!

*All comments must be approved by Miss Kloczko.
**Remember to sign your name, so we know who is commenting!

Our Trip to the IMAX Theater

Today we went to see Born to Be Wild in IMAX 3D, a documentary about people who rescue and raise orphaned elephants and orangutans and prepare them to return to the wild. The kids LOVED it. Here's what we had to say about our field trip!

• My favorite part was when the baby orangutans were climbing in the trees and when the soccer ball looked like it was coming towards our faces. -Hailey
• My favorite part was when the title of the movie was coming right at us. -Milana
• I liked when the little monkey kissed its mommy. -Ariana
• My favorite part was when the people and the elephants were playing soccer. -Cedric, Thomas, Wesley, Noah T.
• I liked the part when the monkey was swinging on the trees coming toward us. -Ainsley
• My favorite part was when the purple ball was coming right at your face. -Parker
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach the other tree and the tree fell down. -Jacquelyn
• I want to help koalas and pandas like the people in the movie helped elephants and orangutans. -Jacob
• My favorite part was when the elephant kicked the ball and with our 3D glasses it looked like it was going to hit me in the face. -Milo
• I liked when the orangutan was stealing the lady's food. -Leila
• I liked when the baby orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. They have to use to jungle gym to learn how to climb trees and swing on vines so they can survive in the wild. -Sarah
• I liked when the orangutan was eating the soap. -AJ
• I liked seeing the orangutans' real habitat. -Eliana
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking one bottle of milk and accidentally poured the other bottle on himself. -Amaru
• I remember learning at school that elephants take dust baths to protect them from the sun and that was in the movie. It's like their kind of sunscreen. -Jalen
• I liked the part when the elephant got carried by the people into an airplane and got rescued. -Emma
• I saw the elephants use their trunks to drink water and reach branches to eat. -Katherine
• I liked the part when the elephant was drinking milk and holding the bottle with his trunk. -Noah K.
• It scared me when the ball was coming toward us when the elephants kicked it. -Michael
• I liked when they rescued the elephant and took it to the orphanage safely. I loved when they got to return to the wild. It was sad, but it was happy, too. -Olivia
• I liked the part when the humans fed the baby orangutan with a bottle of milk. I liked that the baby orangutans wore diapers. -Isaiah
• I remember that elephants live in savannas, and it showed elephants in savannas in the movie. -Analisa
• The baby elephant was scared when the people first rescued him so he ran into them, and the elephant didn't know that the people were trying to help him. -Thomas
• I want to take care of a giraffe one day like the people in the movie took care of the elephants and orangutans. -Courtney
• I liked how the elephants show that they love each other with their trunks. -Rohin
• It's amazing that these humans raised the elephant and orangutans orphans, yet they were still able to prepare them to survive in the wild. And it was so cool to see animals we learned about up close in 3D! -Miss Kloczko

Did you join us on our trip? Do you think you'd like to see this movie? Leave a comment below!

Mrs. Kahler's first graders also wrote a blog post about Born to Be Wild!

*Miss Kloczko must approve all comments.

** Remember to sign your name at the end of your comment, so we know who's commenting! 

Student Blogger: Angela

On Tuesday, we went to a field trip.  We rode the bus to Old Sacramento. I was so excited about it.  I sat next to my friend Oceana. The first thing we did when we got there was to go to the park. I saw swings and the next thing I know is I was up and down.  Second, we went to a school. We learned how to curtsy, and use our manners.  Third, we rode a train. I felt a little weird; it was my very first time in a train. I really loved the ride. I wish I could ride it again.  Fourth, we ate lunch. I ate a sandwich, a banana, and I drank apple juice. It was so yummy.  Finally we went to the museum.  I saw a train, and some paintings. I got on the train. I thought it was real, but it wasn't. There were some statutes of people. I said hi to them, but they didn't even move. That was incredible. They really look like real people.  I really, really, really had so much fun. I can’t wait for our next field trip.

By Angela