Our Winter/Holiday Classroom Door

Today we put up our holiday door featuring Rudolph. The Salter Classroom wishes everybody a awesome holiday season. 

Friendship Stew

We had an incredible November! We shared a ton of memories and learned SO much. On the last day before the Thanksgiving break, we made friendship stew. Each student brought a vegetable and I supplied the meat and crackers. We all came together to create a delicious stew. And we even shared with our neighbor students, Mrs. Taylor's class. While eating and enjoying each other's company, we read Stone Soup by  Marcia Brown. I am so thankful for all of the awesome students in our class and the incredible parents who support us. 

Special Visitor for American Education Week

We had a wonderful visitor, Mr. Todd, who read to the entire 1st grade for American Education Week. He read to us and shared a lot of words of wisdom. Thank you Mr. Todd for visiting!!

Walkies Web

For those who missed family reading night ~ I wanted to fill you in on our focus. The first grade team focused on Walkies Web. This is a website that we use daily in our classes. The focus of the website is on our reading series, Scott Foresman. 

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/waltkek/FirstGrade.html

Turkey Time!!

I love our new door and it really is helping us get in the mood/spirit for Thanksgiving! Hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed making it. 

Pumpkins...Pumpkins...Pumpkins!!!

We've had an incredible October!! We studied pumpkins off and on for most of October. We compared apples and pumpkins, learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin, tasted homemade and store bought pumpkin seeds, and created countless graphs and charts. We had a lot of fun adding some of our new information to our science journals.

Lizards... Our new friend "Pumpkin"

Our new friend, "Pumpkin" (the lizard) came to visit. Mr. Wesley decided our 6 pets were not quite enough. ;) He ended up in some odd places. Take a look... 

Junie B. Jones

Yesterday we had the opportunity to take a field trip to see the Junie B. Jones play performed by Samford. We had a an incredible time! We have been reading Junie B. Jones books since school started so we were really looking forward to this trip. Here are some pictures from our adventure...

Parts of a Plant

We had a wonderful time creating our candy flowers. We studied parts of a plant and decided we needed to make our learning hands-on. We had a great time doing just that and an even better time enjoying the finished product. :)