Earning good behavior marbles for a Buckley visit reward!

First grade is working really hard at earning good behavior marbles. Throughout the year, the class has voted on a classroom reward when they get all their good behavior marbles in their jar. For their next class reward, they have requested that my bulldog, Buckley, comes to class to celebrate his birthday. They have till May 23rd, to earn all their marbles. I already told, Buckley that be may get to celebrate his birthday with 12 first grade friends. He is very excited and hopes everyone is exhibiting good behavior in class, specialist, and at recess.

Buckley loves to sleep!

Football is his game!

It is hard to ever take the ball away, he is a quick little runner!

I attempted to teach him how to skateboard and he didn't like it very much.

Goodbye, Omar!

Last week we said goodbye to our good friend, Omar. He moved out of state to be close to his family. We will miss him dearly! He has been here at Visitation since pre-kindergarten with the same group of students each year. The students each wrote him a goodbye message for his first grade book. It was a sad day for all of us but we wish him and his family the best of luck in the new place they call home.

Through the eyes of a student! Photos by our student photographers.

 

Each week we have a new student photographer. This student gets to take pictures whenever they complete work early or if there is a special activity we want documented. Each picture taken allows the student to document a memory we will never forget in first grade.

Spelling test

Playing Sumdog math games

Rainy day recess

Girls vs. Boys fact game

Rainbow spelling words

Leilani being a goof :)

Mackenzie doing a dance

All smiles for the camera

I think these are mine...time to pack up!

Posing for the camera

Ryann's turn to pose for the camera

Excited to see his momma!

Emma vs. Alex in our math fact game

Visitation's Student of the Month

Visitation congratulates, Javana! Our very own Javana was nominated by 3 staff members for being charismatic. She was presented with the student of the month award for April during our last Mass of the month. The student of the month award is sponsored by Jerry from the Knights of Columbus. We are so thankful to have Jerry be apart of this award.

Congratulations, Javana, for being such a good leader to to your classmates and students at Visitation.

 First grade visited 3rd grade students to listen and learn about their natural disaster projects. Students roamed the upper hallway and sat down with a 3rd grade student to learn what their research project was about. We loved being able to see what 3rd grade was learning and how they presented it to us. Fantastic job, 3rd grade and thank you for sharing!

New things happening in the WILD FIRST GRADE

It has been a long time since I have updated everyone on the wonderful things first grade has been doing and learning in our class. We have enjoyed art, reading projects, being scientists, a new math program online, learning about the Holy Spirit and fairytale writing.

I would like to first say, I am extremely proud of how well first grade is reading and their excitement of books. They love books so much, I sometimes have to take them away from them so we can learn other things. They are learning spelling rules and decoding words based on the skills we have learned. They have been working really hard on sight words and choosing good fit books. Way to go, kiddos!

For the month of March, we wrote a fairytale about catching a leprechaun. The students used their imagination to come up with these fun stories. I was impressed by all the details the students included in their stories. We cannot wait to share them with you.

We just finished up our science unit, Solids and Liquids. As a scientist, we investigated different solids and liquids and their properties. We also experimented with adding water to some solids and watching them dissolve into a liquid. Two of our favorite experiments was watching oil and water separate and seeing if toothpaste was a solid or liquid. We played a fun jeopardy game yesterday to review everything we learned over the unit and today we will take our unit test.

Checkout the photos taken by our first grade photographers. Each week, a student is assigned to the job of taking photos of students in action learning.

Special Visitors in Grade 1

Yesterday, first grade had two very special guests visit the classroom! My grandparents came down from Chewelah, WA and stopped by on there way to visit my family in Shelton. My grandpa is very sick and we have been sending prayers his way during our special prayer time. So, this was a very special day for the class to meet them and for my grandpa to get the chance to see our school.  

While our visitors were here, the students each introduced themselves and shared one thing they like about Visitation. Many shared that the people at Visitation are nice, love recess and science, like to learn from the teachers here, and like their first grade teacher :) My grandparents shared with the class where they are from and what they used to do for careers.  The class also read our weekly story to them. The smiles on the students faces and on my grandparents were priceless. This is a memory that I will treasure for a lifetime and will never forget. I am glad that he had the chance to meet my terrific class and see me doing what I love to do...being a TEACHER :)

My grandparents are all smiles! They loved meeting my class!

Listening to the class read the story, "Lost." Read by the first grade students.