Open House and More!

We wrote autobiography poems. Our poems had a picture of us on them. -Jade

We did a big, big spelling test. -Fabiana

We read The Thank You Book. Piggie thanked everyone. She almost forgot someone important! -Jaykob

I just found out that this book that just came out is the LAST Elephant and Piggie book in the series! :(

We went to the book fair, but I didn't buy anything until my dad took me. -Allyson

Miss Kloczko made a mind map about the keel-billed toucan and we helped her. -Damion

We learned the word "mimic" but that was too easy for us because we already knew that, so Miss Kloczko taught us about biomimicry. When people use tongs that is biomimicry. -Parker

On Monday, the first grade teachers for next year came, and one was Mrs. Duley. -Juan Carlos

A second grader was our mystery reader. She read "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth and The Umbrella. -Tianna

We practiced our American symbols songs. My favorite is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. -Indigo

We made tear art keel-billed toucans with colorful beaks. -Lea

On Friday after our spelling test, we did Go Noodle. -Nya

We came to school for Open House. We taught our parents and our families about first grade. -Jared

I was the first one at Open House. -Alex

Rainforest: Round 2!

Welcome back to our class blog! It has been awhile! This week we started learning about the rainforest (again). A few weeks ago, in the middle of studying Australia, we learned about South America for a week when the Project GLAD demonstration was in our classroom. But now we are really diving in (and Miss Kloczko gets to teach this time)!

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We made turtles! -Jade

(We started these last week when we were finishing up with Australia!)

We read Afternoon on the Amazon. -Juan Carlos

My favorite part of the week was when Miss Kloczko read us a book, Afternoon on the Amazon.

We made Mother's Day gifts! -Allyson

We are taking some special papers home. In workshop today our group did Star Wars math. We added numbers with ones and tens.  -Aaqil

We read a chapter book. -Liam

I drew pictures for Jaguars Here, Jaguars There in my poetry folder for workshop. -Tianna

We learned about jaguars. We learned that they hide from their prey. -Kendall

I want to know if  we are going to learn about the aye-aye? -Lorenzo

This week at art we did a special project. It was a nice toucan. -Mati

I got to color the spots in the jaguar's rosettes. -Lea

Jaguars hunt tapirs, monkeys, and birds. -Jules

We learned about the jaguar. If I was a jaguar, I would eat fish. -Jared

On Thursday and Friday, Miss Kloczko read us Afternoon on the Amazon. We learned about the jaguar.  -Nya

We watched Wild Kratts. We saw a jaguar, a harpy eagle, and a basilisk lizard in the rainforest on Wild Kratts. We learned what vocalize means. -Kyara

Today we were sly. That word was a new word in our chant. -Jaykob

We learned a new signal word. The word was strata. It means layers of the rainforest. -Anshika

We learned about the jaguar again. -Anahi

We did a jaguar chart and a Mother's Day present. -Parker

We read Magic Tree House #6. -Tanaya

The rainforest is close to the equator. -Damion

We learned about the jaguar. It eats sloths. Poor sloths. -Indigo

We made a Mother's Day gift. -Carol

We finished our sea turtles and did a spelling test. We did our best. We have a secret present for Mother's Day. -Fabiana

We got new teams. -Cooper

We also started a new chapter in math! We are learning about data, and how to create and read different types of graphs. Next week, the kids will be able to do their own surveys and create graphs to show the data they collect! We also talked about mindfulness. The kids are already earning lots of team points for showing mindfulness!

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This book was perfect! Thank you Ms. Hines, for sharing with Mrs. Kahler, who shared with me. ;)

Thanks for reading! Happy Mother's Day, moms! ♥

Take Me into the Rainforest

We had a great week! (And I had an extra special week with lots of treats from my sweet first graders and their families!)

We put spots on jaguars using our fingers and paint. -Michael

We got to vote for the animal we want to learn about next. -Jacob

We did workshop 2 times on Thursday. -Wesley

We learned what "plumage" means. It means feathers that cover the body of a bird. -Parker

Our teams for dodgeball are South America and Rainforest. -Analisa

We learned new chants. -Emma

We got new teams. -Ainsley

We're studying confidence. -Milana

We did a spelling test on Friday. -Cedric

We did our inquiry chart for South America. -Thomas

We had two new workshop jobs practicing capitalization and proper nouns. -Milo

We're learning about believing in yourself. -Hailey

We made a world map of rainforests. -Sarah

We sorted our A is for America pages. -Noah K.

We learned the word "strata." It means layers or levels. -Courtney

Miss Kloczko finally gave us our Australia posters! -Rohin

We got team points for confidence. -AJ

We learned a chant about clocks. -Jalen

We played dodgeball. -Noah T.

We learned about proper nouns like Chloe, Thomas's dog. -Eliana

We did "Take Me into the Rainforest." -Leila

We made a song about first graders and our prepositional phrases had proper nouns. -Amaru

This week, the digital challenge was to share what you would like to learn about in South America, or to share what you already know. I can't believe we are studying our last continent of the year! -Miss Kloczko

I hope your week was as fun as ours! Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there, especially my own! :)

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