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First Grade: Day 141

Today is Wonderful Wednesday!

Nothing much was said about to today’s school day.

She did mention that she has learned to do a back flip off the bars at recess! The first time she did it she landed flat on her face on the ground. Now she says she can do it all the time and she’s not afraid.

Classwork…

Front: working with “am“, “is” and “are“.

Back: more work with “am“, “is” and “are“.

Front: complete the sentences.
Got a couple incorrect.

Back: complete the sentences with the words provided.

A poem.

Spot The Dog

Can you spot our dog?

She has been doing this for several months now, which is just to funny.

Today, however, she has on one of her sweaters and is sandwiched between the 2 beds like it’s 40 below outside! Is she really that cold?!?! With that sweater on, you’d think she’d be hot between those beds.

At night she’ll wake me up because she’s flinging the top bed so high in the air that it’s hitting the wall with a thud! She’ll then get in between the 2 beds and sign really loud, as if to say,
“Nobody get up! I’m good!”

First Grade: Day 140

Today is Terrific Tuesday and it’s Chapel and library.

Today was a special Honor’s Chapel. With the end of the 3rd quarter behind us, today was about honoring those who worked hard and excelled. Also being handed out today was the “Cougar Award“. Isabel got the award back in the first quarter of the school year. Today however we honored 7 other students for the Cougar Award and many others with attendance and academic achievement awards! Great job!

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Getting her attendance award with other 1st-3rd graders.

Academics awards given to 1st-3rd graders.

Isabel got two awards; Good Attendance and Superior Achievement in Academics! She does need to focus on the task at hand, verbal control, and listening. Otherwise she’s doing great.

Isabel with her awards.
Fantastic job Squirt! Keep up the great work!

After the awards ceremony, was Parent/Student lunch and I took Isabel out for lunch. She chose “Taco Time”, which is close to school since we ended up only having 30 min. to eat.

Classwork…

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Front: choose the correct verb.

Back: working with “am“, “is” and “are“.

Front: spelling word work.

Back: unscramble the spelling words.

Today the class also finished their science lesson on “Friction”.

Learning about friction and what it does.

How does friction work.

Class experiment.

What makes friction hot or cause it to slip?

First Grade: Day 139

It’s Marvelous Monday!

This morning there was ice on the windshield of the spork as we headed to school, luckily I didn’t have to scrap it off. The temperature reading stated it was 37 degrees out.

Marvelous Monday means All-School Open. The Monday morning assembly for announcements and other fun stuff for the week. Isabel was picked to be the 3 R’s helper for next week’s ASO. She will have the honor of drawing the names of those who will get a “Shining R“.

This week begins 8 1/2 weeks of school before getting out for the summer. There will be one day off for Memorial Day in May. Isabel says she’s ready for summer to begin. She wants to get outside and play in her sandbox, catch frogs, plant a garden, and have lots of sunshine. I’m with her!

This weeks Bible verse is…

“The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom should I be afraid?” – Psalm 27:1b

Front: working with this week’s spelling words.

The spelling words for this week are…

find – kind – mind – mild – wild – child – day – play – sure
– son – near – cold – hurry – lesson – caught – favorite

Back: write the word that rhymes with the word that is underlined.

Isabel said they started working on their science lesson for the week. They are learning about “Friction“. When I asked her about it she said, “It’s like rubbing your two hands together and they start to get warm.” They will do the science experiments lesson later in the week when they have more time to do so.

Tomorrow is “Honor’s Chapel” for 3rd quarter and it’s also parent/student lunch. We can either have lunch at school with her or pick her up to eat lunch else where. I love when these lunch times are given!

After homework, Isabel got out her modeling clay and made me lots of food. She made steak, jelly rolls, cake, a sandwich, and more steak. She even made a fish and bird sculpture (should have gotten a picture!). She sat there for about an hour or so just making things. Later we all went out to work in the backyard. The weeds have really taken over this year. I think if we go out and work a few hours a day we’d have them out in no time. Looking forward to our garden again this year!

Monster Trucks

Last night we went to the Monster Truck Show at the Spring Fair.

We had a fun time despite the light rain that fell for most of the evening.

Isabel liked this one because it was purple.
There were 10 trucks in all.

She told us that she had hoped there would have been a truck that was purple with yellow flames on it. It’s purple and yellow just doesn’t have flames!

We later learned that one of the trucks was driven by a 16 year old girl! She did a good job but the truck she was driving was having issues so she was out early in the show.

The last time we went to the Spring Fair, Isabel was 3 and couldn’t ride on any of the rides. So this time, if she wanted, we’d let her ride something. The first ride she wanted to go on was the Ferris wheel. I think she was a bit nervous at first but got more comfortable as we went around. I think we ended up going around 5 or 6 times.

Our view.
You can also see the other monster trucks.

Not to many people down there yet. As it got closer to the show more and more people began to show up.

At the top of the Ferris wheel.

After the Ferris wheel we walked around and found some rides more her size. Lots of them in fact but we couldn’t go on all of them. She picked a roller coaster, air plane ride, fun house and then played one game with the leftover tickets!

First roller coaster ride – little coaster just for kids!
She was very nervous for this – see her grip the sides of the car!

She went around on the coaster for about 3 or 4 times before it ended.
She really enjoyed it!

After her tickets were gone we decided to get some food and see some exhibits inside.

We saw F.F.A. exhibits and then small farm animals; geese, ducks, chickens, chicks, a turkey, bunnies, llamas, pheasants, goats, and miniature donkeys and

The first time she patted this sheep it, it baa’d, Isabel’s eyes got so BIG, she must of startled it!
This petting pen and a few goats, 2 sheep, and 1 chicken.

The Monster Truck show was great. It was the first time for Isabel and the first time that Gino and I have seen a show on asphalt. Isabel enjoyed the show but didn’t care for the fireworks afterward. By the time we got home it was almost 11 p.m. and she was to tired, she went to bed within minutes!

First Grade: Day 138 – Half Day

Today is Fantastic Friday!

Today’s recess was held in the gym because of rain. Isabel wasn’t to happy about that but I told her at least you got one.

Again, nothing else was said about her half day at school. No homework this weekend!

She’s really excited about going to the Spring Fair and seeing the MONSTER TRUCKS tonight! We will probably go a little early to walk around the Fair, then the trucks start at 6:30 p.m and then fireworks follow afterward. It’s going to fun!

Classwork…

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Got 100% on her Bible verse quiz!
Great job!

Front: math work: working with money.

Back: working with money problem solving.

Front: adding “ing” or “ed” to words.

Back: crossword!

Front: add “ing” to the words.

Back: adding “ing“.

First Grade: Day 137 – Half Day

Today is Thankful Thursday and it’s P.E. with Mrs. S. Today’s P.E. class was cancelled due to it being a half day at school today. Isabel said they did go into the computer lab to do some AR testing.

Otherwise all she talked about was her recess and no one wanted to play with her or someone was being mean and not taking turns/sharing.

Classwork…

Front: complete the sentences with the words provided.

Back: complete the sentences with the words provided.
Isabel even did the “extra” work at the bottom using the words: mail, day and gray.
“I went to out to check the mail on a gray day.” Great job!

Front: add “ed” to the words.

Back: working with “ed“.

Front: choose the word that best completes the sentences.

Back: write the words for each picture.

First Grade: Day 136 – Class Picture

Today is Wonderful Wednesday!

It’s music class with Mr. G and computer lab with Mrs. T. They went to both but she only mentioned that they sang with Mrs. G and did AR testing with Mrs. T.

Today we got our class pictures! Very nice!