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

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! ♥

Student Blogger: Ryan

Ryan’s Minecraft World

Creative mode

1. Did you know that in Minecraft you can build lots of stuff in creative mode.
2. You can also make a house in creative mode!

                                                             Survival mode

1. Survival mode is a dangerous place.  Do you know why?  When the sun is down, mobs come out like 1.  Spiders 2.  Skeletons  3.  Zombies 4.  Endermen.
2. And do you know what is so funny in Minecraft? You have to find blocks, destroy the blocks, and then build it.

                                                 This is when someone is joining.

                                               

                                           All What I know about Electra

1. Did you know in Minecraft you can fly.  The name is called Electra.
2. This is how to use Electra in creative mode. 1.  Fly up. 2.  Touch the space bar 2 times. 3.  Touch the space bar 1 more time. 4.  Use the mouse to control to fly.

Here are some of my worlds:

Minecraft- Village

Minecraft- Diamond Jail and Diamond House

Minecraft- Survival World

Old Sac, Chatterpix, and More!

This week I had your first graders email me their contributions to the blog! Here's what they had to say:

We did chatterpix. We painted ostriches. We did smart cards on our ostrich chart. We learned about the ostrich. Ms. Dolly gave us stickers. We learned about the pangolin.  -Alex and Jared

Today we did a spelling test. Yesterday we learned about ostriches. -Ryan and Aaqil

We went on a field trip. Our class did a test. Here are some words we did: sneaking. -Indigo and Carol

We had a field trip. It was fun. For Fun Friday we watched The Lion Guard. -Cooper and Juan Carlos

We learned about ostriches. It was pretty cool. -Jaykob  

We watched the second Lion King, The Lion Guard. I bet the third is going to be The Lion Dad. Liam and Nya are partners again! -Liam and Nya

We learned that a single stride of an ostrich can cover 10-16 feet. And we also learned that ostriches can't fly. On Tuesday we had a field trip. We had to mind our manners every time we answered a question. -Jade and Lea

For Social Studies our class went to a field trip. -Fabiana and Kendall

(Thank you parent chaperones for all of your help and for the fun photos!)

We want to learn about the cobra and the cheetah. -Jules and Lorenzo

A few things the kids didn't mention...

We read a funny book, "Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!"

Mrs. Duley was our mystery reader!

What's happening in Math? The kids are becoming place value experts! This week we learned about hundreds and we continued to work on comparing numbers. Understanding place value makes comparing numbers easier! (We even got to practice comparing numbers during science, when we watched a video of an ostrich racing a football player! 43 miles per hour is greater than 20 miles per hour, so the ostrich is faster!) 

The kids wrote some great poetry! The best part? They went through the entire writing process DIGITALLY! We got some inspiration from Giraffes Here, Giraffes There, used our sentence patterning chart to do some prewriting, and then typed our rough drafts! The kids were doing some pretty advanced stuff... copying and pasting, changing font colors, sharing google docs, clicking between tabs in google chrome... So impressed with their teamwork while learning these digital skills and reviewing all of the parts of a sentence.

Here's something new we've started doing during our Africa unit... picture prompts! Today the kids were shown the photo below and given the task to simply write! So amazed at what they came up with!

Every day, I do my best to encourage my first graders to be good citizens. In the classroom, on the playground, and at home, they seem to have a pretty good idea of what that looks like. But what about being good digital citizens? Because so much of what kids do inside (and outside) of school is digital, and because technology is likely to become even more prevalent in their lives as technology continues to advance, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about digital citizenship. We started with a lesson on internet safety. Ask your first graders if they remember the three rules from the video we watched on Monday! 

Last but not least... Chatterpix. :)