Summer Workshop Fun!

Teachers spend quite a bit of time  in the summer attending workshops and learning new and exciting things to use in the classroom!  So I went to an excellent  MacBook workshop with a couple of teacher friends and one of my assignments was to create an iMovie!  So here is my very first iMovie!  It could also teach you something very important...   Enjoy!

Aloha (Goodbye!) First Grade!

First Grade Students celebrated the end of our school year with a goodbye Luau today!  It was a beautiful and fun day to end our school year!  Here is a short video of the First Grade students learning the hula and some quick pictures from the day!  Have a wonderful summer!

This is My Teacher!

So the end of the school year brings the certain "Memory Book" where students get to write and draw about their First Grade school year.  One of my favorite pages is their writing and drawing about their teacher. These are very cute and touching!  I think I may need a new haircut and some new clothes!  HaHa!  Here are just a few:

Good Times on the Last Daze of First...

Students have been enjoying working on some fun end of the year activities -- not to mention being silly!  Exactly what we should be doing with only 3 1/2 days left of First Grade!  Good Times... Good Friends!

Career Day 2013 - Jobs People Do are Fun to Learn About!

Today was a great learning experience for all of Bear Creek.  Our annual Career Day is filled with many opportunities for students to hear about all the interesting jobs people have in and around our community!  We had 3 excellent visitors to our classroom today!  Many thanks to the Wonderful Working Moms of Aadi, Paul and Parmis for speaking to our class!  The students truly enjoyed your great presentations!

Here are a few pics of the day:

                                         Thank You Azar (Aerospace Engineer)

 

 

Thank you Carrie (Marketing Representative)

 

 

Thank You Gincy (City Planner)

 

It was an awesome Career Day!

 

 

 

Here's a Chick... There's a Chick... Everywhere's a Chick Chick!

First Grade studies the life cycle of a chicken and had 6 brown chicken eggs warming in an incubator for 21 days.   We finally were delighted when 5 of the eggs hatched!  These 5 very sweet,  fluffy, tan (with stripes!) and black baby chicks made for lots of Science observations, writing, creating, questions, wonderings and just plain fun this past week! Here are a few pictures of life science in action:

 

 

 

Students also used iPads to create either a Pic Collage about chicks OR a PixnTell on chicks.  Here are a few of the PixnTells that are completed:

By Elizabeth:

 

By Parmis:

 

By Remi:

 

 

AND NEXT SOME PIC COLLAGES BY STUDENTS WHO FINISHED THEM TODAY:

 

By Aadi:

 

 

By Alexia:

 

By Lizzie:

 

By Benjamin:

 

By Aashish:

 

By Mariah:

 

By Noah:

 

By Saif:

 

By Victoria:

 



Blog Contributor - Chaden "All About Garrett Morgan"

This blog contribution was written by Chaden:

I know that Garrett Morgan invented the stop light many years ago -- in 1923.  We learned that the stop light keeps people safe in their cars.  Garrett Morgan also invented the gas mask for people not to die from bad gases.