Happy Valentine's Day

Look at our cute Valentine cookies.

They are so yummy!

We love Valentine's Day

Sorting our valentines and candy!

We all love our friends!

Love Bug Math

While keeping with the Valentine's Day theme, we decided to sneak in a  little number sense with 2 digit addition.

Each student made a two digit addition love bug. We counted by 2s (eyes). We added, how many red + Pink + Purple love bugs.

Their dots are suppose to be hearts. Don't you just love first grade:)

We use Singapore Math so they represented the part, part whole and showed it with their number sentence. Who knew they would be so great at regrouping!!!

Super Bowl Math Challenge

Super Bowl Math Day

We had a great day with our Super Bowl Math theme!

First, we played a friendly game of "Quarterback Sneak".

It was so much fun!

Next, we put on our thinking caps to play Football Digit Detective.

Don't forget "Touchdown", it was a game that kept us guessing at who the winner would be!

Fast 10's was one of our favorites!

Next to come, our Word Problem Team Challenge!

Mrs. Schmitt announces the winner of the IXL Math Challenge! And the winner is......

Team Fortenberry Wins!!!!

What amazing mathematicians!

Groundhog Day

First....Then.....Last

Groundhog Day Writing

We worked with sequencing and predictions.

We each predicted what would happen on Groundhog's Day.

I wounder if he will be right? He did see his shadow....six more weeks of winter.

Isn't he cute???

Found this idea on the "First Grade Fever" Blog. Soooooo Creatively cute!!

First graders Perform Surgery??

Today we were surgeons!

We cut apart the two words.

And pieced them together with a band-aid for the apostrophe.

A Fun Way To Learn About Solid Shapes

First, we explored solid shapes.



We grouped them according to their attributes.

Next, we went on a shape hunt.



Did you know shapes are everywhere?




We had to look all around the school.



We found all of the shapes on our list.

We looked over our list to make sure we found them all.


 

Soon we will be making our own web book. Keep looking for them on our class website.



Next, Mrs. Fortenberry surprised us with a shape snack.



 



Look at all the yummy candy.

It was the most delicious way to learn.

Can you see the shapes?

 

We had so much fun!

What would you do if you lived in a Snow Globe?

 Saw this idea on another first grade teacher's website. I kind of changed it a bit to make it work for us.

We read the story, Snow Globe Family.

We thought about what it would be like if we lived in a snow globe.



You can't really tell in this picture but we but a glitter glaze over the picture to make it look like it was snowing.



We put them in the hall for the other classes to see.