Mrs. Nelson’s Class Blog

Today’s bloggers: Everybody in Firstgradeland!

It is very snowy in Rochester, Michigan!   Here’s what we like about winter in Michigan:

Lexi: I like when the snow falls and I get to catch it on my tongue.  It tastes like water.

Evan B: I like making igloos because I made an igloo out of snow and it will freeze because I sprayed water on it.

Paul: I like to throw snowballs at  my little brother and it’s very cold down his back.  I don’t like winter because no one plays with me in neighborhood because they’re too busy.

Samuel: What I like about winter is that I get to make a big snowman.  What I don’t like about winter is that it gets really cold.

Sarah: I like finding ice underneath snow and standing on it and I like slip-sliding on it.

Ian: I don’t like falling in the snow and getting my face cold.

Max: I like that you can build snowmen. I don’t like getting snow in my boots.

Katelyn: I like to make a snowman.

Lance: I don’t like going outside for recess because I get so cold.  I like to build build snowmen.

Stefan:

Brooklyn:  I like winter because everything is white and soft.

Paityn Q: I like making snowmen.  I also make make big snow pile and jump in it.

Taya: I like playing in the and it is awesome!

JJ: I like winter because I can make a snowman.  I don’t like winter because I can’t run in the snow. 

Payton S: I don’t like the cold at winter.

Faith: I like snowflakes.  I like to catch them on my tongue.

Hayden: I like the snow because I like to play in it and jump in it.

Matthew:  I like winter because I get to drink hot chocolate.

Evan S: I like sledding because there’s jumps on the sledding hill and it’s fun to be in the air on them.

Mrs. Nelson:  I love it when the snow sparkles in the snow, it’s like magic.  It reminds me of Narnia!  I don’t like dirty gray slush!

 We also read the poem First Snow by Marie Louise Allen.

First Snow

Snow makes whiteness where it falls.

The bushes look like popcorn balls.

The places where I always play

Look like somewhere else today.

Today’s bloggers are: Mrs. Nelson & Paityn Q.
We had a great Halloween bash! Some room moms helped with activities. We decorated pumpkins with foam stickers, made fruit kabobs, got candy, we saw how to make a Kenyan drinking gourd, we played Bingo & Mrs. Nelson took LOTS of pictures! We all had fun!

We took our first field trip in October to  Upland Hills Farm.  Our day was jam packed with fun farm activities: a farm show where we learned all about farm animals, a hayride, storybook hike,visiting the barns & animals,  playing on two playgrounds, milking a cow, eating a cider & donut snack, rolling down a big hill, feeding the ducks corn, & picking a pumpkin!  Boy, were we tired after all of that!

Actually, it’s Mrs. Nelson, but yes, it’s really true!  Our teacher is going to Kenya tomorrow on a mission trip. She will be gone for 16 days.   We will be able to follow her & send her messages by commenting on her blog www.elizabethdnelson.blogspot.com .  We will be in good hands; we have a great  guest teacher!  We pretty sure we will hear some stories about Kenya & see a ton of pictures when Mrs. Nelson gets back!

First Grade visited the people who make our school a great place to be! We went in all the classrooms and got a special view of all the offices & the people who work behind the front office. It take a lot of people to make our school run!

We were able to observe Dwarf African Clawed Frogs hatch and grow from eggs.  We wrote about the changes we saw each day.

 Today’s Bloggers: Emily M. & Allison

We had tadpoles. First they were eggs. We wanted to see how they come out of their eggs. Then they looked like little worms. Their tails kept shrinking. They had whiskers. They are frogs now. Mrs. Nelson wanted to give them away. She gave them to five of her students.

Today our bloggers are …Emma and Emily A.

We are working on a report. It’s called an I Search Report. First we had to pick a topic then we had to do a     K W L chart. The K stands for what you know, the W stands for what you want to learn, and L stands for what you learned. Emily is doing her report on African elephants and Emma is doing her report on rescue dogs. This is what Emily and Emma learned Emily learned … elephants can turn on a facet but they don’t turn it off. Emma learned that some search and rescue dogs are Labradors and bloodhounds. When we are done, we are going to have a fair and we are going to have ice cream. Everybody is going to show off their report.

We had a guest principal for the day.  His name is Mr. Kerrick Sawyer.  When he visited our classroom, he became our Celebrity Reader and read Sarah’s book Lily’s Big Day.  We also gave him the  Jelly Belly Bad Bean challenge!  The jelly beans have two flavors for every color, one regular tasty flavor and one really awful flavor!  The bad flavors are: booger, vomit, pencil shavings, skunk spray, baby wipes, moldy cheese, black pepper, ear wax, toothpaste and rotton egg.  Mr. Sawyer was brave enough to eat four.  He got peach, toothpaste, vomit & skunk spray!  Thanks for being a good sport, Mr. Sawyer:)

Did  you celebrate Palm Sunday?  We sure did:)  We made “palm” branches, went on a parade and sang Hosanna while waving our branches.  We even got a chance to visit with the two ESL classes to explain what Palm Sunday is about:  Jesus the King of Kings!