All You Need Is Love, Room Parents, and Valentine's Day

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy

There's nothing you can make that can't be made

No one you can save that can't be saved

Nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known

Nothing you can see that isn't shown

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

All you need is love, all together now

All you need is love, everybody

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

Lyrics from the Beatles

Aren't We Fancy

Well, it only took a few snowstorms to pass for us to have our fancy day....We did it in style!
We wore fancy chinos, tiaras, bows, dresses, ties, skirts, boots, and sweaters. Take a look at us while the entire grade shares Fancy Nancy stories. We had a glorious (that's fancy for good) time!

Before you enjoy the fancy pictures, you may love to peruse (that's a fancy word for look) Fancy Nancy's website!! Click here .

The Fancy First grade sharing Nancy's Fancy Stories

This one is for the boys!!!

"Don't we look fancy!"

The t-shirt says it all.......Beautiful!

Looks like a great story!

Mara reads....

Hanging on Christopher's words.

Lovely listening ladies!

Reading: Literature Common Core Standard-

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Fancy Monday

Nancy exclaims (a fancy word for says)

"Let's be fancy on Monday!" 

We will have Fancy Day on Monday since we had a Snow Day on Friday!!!

P a T t E r N s

Patterns are everywhere; in nature and in math. For us they are being created all over our classroom with our classroom materials.      Do you see the pattern?

Our pattern makers have chosen crayons, pencils, blocks, markers, paintbrushes, and expo markers to make their interesting patterns.            Love the colors choices!

Take a look at the children hard at work!

*After all the fun of making patterns, the final step is to document the design in the math journals*.

Math in Focus Common Core State Standards
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Model with mathematics.

Essential Question: What kinds of patterns can you make with familiar materials?

Once Upon A Time

there was a worksheet with a castle, a princess, and a frog.

This colorful worksheet inspired us to write our own fairly tales with characters that included a green frog and lovely princess. Some of us added characters while some of us changed the setting from the large colorful castle to a place that inspired the writer.

An inside look of a fairy tale

After days of writing....and rewriting.....and rereading.....and editing.....and illustrating....and title creating...and laminating....there was only one thing left to do.....

share our fairy tales in a large circle. And here we are........

Gianna mesmerizes us

Eva shares fireside

Prince Domenic reads aloud 

CC listens intently to Owen

Mara and Domenic hear CC's tale

And they all lived happily ever after
THE END

Essential Question: What are the elements of a fairy tale?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.5
With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

The Best Part of Me

Our inspiration for one of our writing projects

Learning to express yourself through writing has a process.
Before we began to write, we read the book that became our inspiration.
After a discussion about ideas we got into groups with like minded people.
To document our ideas in our group we completed a graphic organizer. It helped to organize and focus our writing.

Myla was organizing her thoughts on her hair while Owen decided to write about his feet

Our writing process continues, by thinking of 5 ideas to write about on our best part.

THEN, the writing begins........

Our first drafts led to the editing process which eventually became typed work. That is now bound in our class room as a book titled. The Best Part of Us.

The Grand Finale........The reading of the book.

Michael shares....

While our next readers showcase their illustrations.....

Myla  and Jana sit comfortably as they read to the audience.

Another successful day with our sharpened pencils, a blank sheet of paper, an open heart, and an expressive soul.......

Essential Question: How do writers express themselves?