Dance-a-Thon!

The Dance-a-Thon was a huge success this school year!  

The students had a blast dancing during their P.E. time with 1B and 1H classes and again in the evening with the whole school community. 

A huge shout out to 1S parent, Mrs. Soshnik, and the DAT committee for organizing this wonderful fundraiser!  So much money was raised for our school, and the students really had a great time.  I am so proud of 1S for raising $1,700 for our school.  

That is truly amazing!  

Our students will benefit greatly from your generous donations. 

Even Obi, the Eagle, joined in on the dancing fun! 

Thank you 1S families and all of our OB community!  Thank you also to Coach Jander, Coach Prange, and Miss Ladue for leading us in several dances and songs.  We had a blast!

Some more fun moments of dancing... 😀 

Kahoot!

Since we started playing Kahoot at the beginning of this school year, students have been walking in each day asking, "Will we be playing Kahoot today?!?"  

"What's Kahoot?" you might be thinking... Kahoot is a game-based learning platform played in a group setting.  The game is live and online.  All students connect to the game at the same time.  The questions are delivered on the smart board and students interactively respond to the questions via I-pad.  The game keeps track of the results and displays the correct answers immediately after students enter answers-- giving students automatic feedback and displaying student nicknames on the smart-board when answering correctly.  

We can play Kahoot individually and in teams. 

Some popular nicknames that students display are Oh my 😍😎😏🦄 (followed by various emojis),  Get Wrecked, LOL, and other fun ones. Teachers have the option of creating their own Kahoot games or using ones that other teachers have created that go along with our lessons.  The students are really engaged during this interactive game.

Listen to the reaction of the students when they get an answer correct on the Kahoot game! 😃

Writing Personal Narratives

Students have been hard at work during Writer's Workshop.  Our first unit is writing a personal narrative.  Students learn that personal narratives zoom in on a small moment in their lives.  Students created a collage of ideas to help them with ideas for their personal narrative stories. 

 Some of the mini-lessons have included:  Thinking of an idea,  Zooming in on that moment, Stretching the moment across your fingers (pages of the story), Beginning-Middle-End, Writing details in pictures and in words, and Re-reading the story as you write to make sure it makes sense.  Mini-lessons will adapt and change according to the needs of our class. 

 Students have learned that thinking of questions like "Who? What? How? Why? Where? When?" help us to include details in our small moment personal narratives.

Students enjoy sharing as well as listening to their classmates' personal narratives. 

This school year I have heard students say that they like Writer's Workshop time which is wonderful to hear because they work really hard during this time of our day.

Building Good Reading Habits

Reader's workshop during the second week of school was spent building good reading habits.  The students began by building up their reading stamina. 

Students also learned that good readers take a sneak peek before reading and then check their sneak peek.

Students worked on this skill independently and then with a partner.

Our partnerships are blossoming new friendships.

We look forward to adding to our repertoire of reading habits in the next couple of weeks and build our reading workshop partnerships.

Welcome!

Welcome new first graders and families!  So glad to be spending the year with you!  I look forward to sharing some of our memorable first grade moments on this blog.  We started our first grade time together doing some getting to know you activities.  Here students are completing the activity, Find a Friend.  Classmates sign their name in a category that suits them, for example... Find a friend who rode a bike this summer.

Students also located some items in our classroom to get to know the room layout by doing a little scavenger hunt. 

We also completed some team building activities that had us up and moving. 

We also learned the "ropes" of Old Bonhomme School by participating in the RODEO. We went around to the various parts of the building and playground where we learned and practiced the expectations.  

Thank you to our coaches for organizing this event! We learned a lot from the RODEO!