Celebrating 1st Grade!
Room 123 celebrated 1st grade with an end-of-the-year party–special thanks to our room parents and everyone who helped!
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Dot and Dash
Dot and Dash are programmable robots purchased by the Richards PTO for check out through the Library Media Center. Ben and Tyler–two friends from Mrs. Matthew’s 5th grade class–introduced Room 123 to Dot and Dash.
Then, students worked in small groups to try their hands at programming!
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Show time!
Actors in Room 123 performed their plays for several classes!
The Whale
The Caterpillar
The Bat
On the shelf!
Room 123’s book of insect poetry is now part of the Richards Media Center collection!
Special thanks to Media Specialist Mrs. Roberts, who is shown below describing the accession process to the class!
Behind the scenes
Rehearsals, set-making, rehearsals, costume-making, and rehearsals filled the last week of school for students in Room 123 as they prepared plays to share with other classes!
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Book Order Project–the final round
Which books to buy for our classroom? Students in Room 123 completed the final round of our Book Order Project, using math strategies to total the cost of the books they chose and persuasive writing to convince others to vote for their choices!
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Cartographers at work
First graders in Room 123 learned to draw maps by building a model town–take a look!
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Plant life cycles
After planting the seeds and watching them grow, first grade scientists observed the fruit and seeds of our brassica plants!
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Author study
Inspired by our recent trip to the zoo, readers in Room 123 are investigating different types of animals.
At the same time, they are learning how author Paul McEvoy organizes information to clearly communicate to his readers.
They use this structure as they take notes about the important information and details. Take a look at their thinking!
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Nail biter!
The tension mounted as students in Room 123 used tally marks to count the votes in the Championship Round of the Tournament of Books! First, Tops and Bottoms was ahead, then The Book With No Pictures nearly closed the gap.
In the end,Tops and Bottoms won by one vote!
