Grinch Day

Today first grade classes had Grinch Day at school! We wore green and all of our activities today had a Grinch theme. We did a word study activity coming up with adjectives to describe the Grinch then we wrote how we would make the Grinch smile and made a Grinch face to go with it. We read the book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and wrote a reading response about the message Dr. Seuss was trying to convey in the book. During math we did Grinch word problem solving, a Grinch color by number 100 grid, and a Grinch themed dice game. Throughout the day our class worked toward earning a viewing of the old school Grinch cartoon movie and we watched it at the very end of the day! Today was a very fun day in first grade!

Catching Up!

I am realizing that I have been tweeting a lot lately and have forgotten to post here! Families, if you are on twitter please follow us @mrskellysclass for lots of quick updates as we do things in class.

In the last two weeks we have been doing more science experiments with sound, we participated in the national hour of code, and we have been learning about December holidays! Later in the year first graders study Mexico so we have learned about some Mexican holidays as they come up. We learned about Dia de los Muertos in October and today we learned about Las Posadas which is happening this week in Mexico. Kids made paper poinsettias as part of this learning.