Caring

This month our character trait is CARING. Being CARING means being kind, compassionate, showing you care, expressing gratitude, forgiving others, and helping people in need. Some of the students in our class were responsible for doing a public service announcement on the Big Woods Buzz. Here is our segment from the announcements that morning! Thanks to the students who read the caring poem!

Flat Stanley

Our Flat Stanley project is slowly coming to and end. We always get a few random Flat Stanley letters throughout the spring, but we think most of his adventures are wrapping up! It has been lots of fun seeing where Flat Stanley has traveled to! We love getting his letters, looking up where he stayed on the map, and learning about the things he has done on his journey! We are so thankful to all those who participated and helped make our Flat Stanley project a success!! To see more about his journey, please check out our classroom moodle. You can click log in as guest to see all the postcards, letters, and pictures we received! You can also check out our google map to learn a little more about where Stanley has traveled! Hope you enjoy checking out some of Stanley's adventures!

Our Flat Stanley Bulletin Board!

Letters and pictures we received from Flat Stanley!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had a fun day today learning about Ireland, graphing Lucky Charms, and searching for gold coins! Miss Griffin's shamrock glasses were a big hit! We hope you have a great St. Patrick's Day!!

For each petal on the shamrock

This brings a wish your way

Good health, good luck, and happiness,

For today and every day.

A nice class picture!

A silly class picture!

Danielle Daniel: Story Teller

We had an AMAZING story teller last Friday. Her name was Danielle Daniel. She came to share some African American folk tales with the school. Her performance was very interactive with lots of audience participation! Her stories were great and she had a wonderful message to always Be Our Best! What a great opportunity we had to see her! Thanks to the PTO for funding her visit!

Getting the audience involved with making sound effects!

Sharing the Briar Bear story!

Involving the students in her last story!

Friendly Letters

This week we learned how to write a friendly letter. We learned that a friendly letter has five important parts.

1. The Date
2. A Greeting
3. The Body
4. A Closing
5. A Signature

After learning the important parts of a friendly letter, we wrote a sloppy copy, edited the letter, then made a final copy. We addressed our envelopes, licked them shut, added a stamp, and walked them to our mail drop! It was a lot of fun to learn the process for writing and sending a letter!

Licking the envelopes shut!

Getting ready to go mail our letters! They are stamped, licked shut, and addressed ready to go!

Literature Extravaganza

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the 1st Grade Literature Extravaganza! We had over 190 people attend the event! It was a GREAT night with lots of FUN books! Thanks to a Target grant, each student received a book to take home with them at the end of the night! Here is a preview of stations from the evening!

THANK YOU ROTARY!!

For Read Across America Day the Rotary Club of St. Michael/Albertville, came to all the first grade classes to read, tell us about their jobs, and give all the students a book to bring home! Our class met Mr. Derus from the city of St. Michael and he read the Dr. Seuss ABC book to help us celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday! THANK YOU MR. DERUS FOR READING AND ROTARY FOR THE BOOKS!!!

Mr. Derus reading to our class!

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! THANK YOU ROTARY!