News from Room 6

Happy Valentine's Day!

2012-02-14T16:38:00.000-08:00

Not only was it the 100th day of school, but we celebrated Valentine's Day too! We played Valentine BINGO and had treats in the afternoon. After PE, we opened all of the Valentine cards from our friends!

HUGE THANKS to all families who sent in party supplies!!!

100th Day of School!

2012-02-14T16:32:00.000-08:00

We made it to the 100th day of first grade! Everyone brought in 100 items and we lined them up around the room. We had noodles, screws, crayons, candies, pennies, and lots of other stuff! The longest line of 100 was Uno cards and Pokemon cards. The shortest line of 100 was grains of sand!!!! Amazing!!!

Changing....

2012-02-07T13:48:00.000-08:00

Sometime after Christmas this always happens.....THEY ARE TURNING INTO READING MANIACS!!!
They can hardly take time out to eat lunch, because they just love reading books that much!
No, this picture was not staged! I just knew I had to capture the moment! Yay!

Happy February!

2012-02-03T15:55:00.000-08:00

We'd like to keep this weather!

Extra recess!

2012-02-03T15:52:00.000-08:00

Our class reached a goal of earning 60 Positive Penguins for doing good deeds around the school! We voted to have an extra recess. The weather was so sunny and even warm! It's fun to have the whole playground to yourself!

Indoor recess fun!

2012-02-03T15:51:00.000-08:00

Haha! Fun with friends!

Math Test in the computer lab!

2012-01-30T16:44:00.000-08:00

Today we took our Topic 4 math test in the computer lab. We love going to the lab!

Valentine Art!

2012-01-30T16:30:00.001-08:00

In the style of American pop artist Jim Dine....we made a neat heart art project!

Back on Schedule!

2012-01-27T21:19:00.000-08:00

Man oh man.....we had a big storm of snow and then ice! Then the trees grew heavy with icy and broke all over Tenino and the power lines! We were without power for days and missed a week of school. Finally we got to have outdoor recess again and the sun came out! We were also sad that two of our classmates moved away. :(

Birthdays!

2012-01-12T20:27:00.000-08:00

We have a few January birthdays to celebrate in Room 6. When a student has a birthday, they can bring some treats to share and we make a special birthday book. The birthday kid gets to sit on a special stool and we ask them lots of questions about their favorite things that will help us make a special page in their book! We have a few different versions of the Birthday Song, including regular, fast, slow, country, underwater, and cha-cha-cha!!! Birthdays are FUN!

Back in the swing of things!

2012-01-12T20:24:00.000-08:00

This week we read a story about maps and learned about how maps can help us. We checked out Google Earth and found Tenino and even Parkside on it.....COOL!!! We also found the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rainier!

Office help!

2011-12-16T08:06:00.000-08:00

Oh my! Look who works in our office!!!

Preview!

2011-12-15T14:55:00.000-08:00

Santa!

2011-12-15T14:46:00.000-08:00

Today we wrote letters to Santa! We learned about the parts of a letter and tried to show Santa we really care about him, not just the presents, by asking how things are going!
We can't wait until our Winter Sharing Program in the morning!! Our song sounds just perfect!

Elf Day!

2011-12-13T13:40:00.000-08:00

Today we made some awesome elves! They show great diversity! Tomorrow we will write about them!

'Tis the Season...

2011-12-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

We are busy getting stronger at reading, writing, and math....and also having fun practicing our music for the Winter Sharing Programs next week!

Next week we will have some holiday fun, working on special surprises, writing to Santa, creating elves and writing stories about them!

Do you love books like we do? Read a free book and donate a book to needy kids throughout the world at http://www.wegivebooks.org/
Rilee and Bryson have been reading and donating LOTS of books!! My favorite story so far is Snowmen at Night!!

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

2011-12-08T07:08:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the neat books!

Sneaker Science!

2011-11-23T11:44:00.000-08:00

This week we got to have our first Sneaker Science classes! We learned about solids, liquids, and gases, and the water cycle with Mrs. Taylor.
We made a model of the water cycle.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2011-11-23T11:39:00.000-08:00

Hope you have a great time with family and friends on Thanksgiving!

Fun Times!

2011-11-23T10:52:00.000-08:00

We made pilgrims! We used rectangles to make the boy pilgrim pants. We had fun. We liked to make them. Some kids will give them to their parents. We love our parents!

We played a pilgrim game with dice. The rules were, roll the dice and color the space with that number in it. That was fun too!

We had calendar time.
We had sack lunches.

We love pilgrims! Happy Thanksgiving!

What a busy week!

2011-11-10T17:30:00.001-08:00

Wow, with 1 1/2 days less this week, we sure managed to get a lot done and celebrate 3 birthdays!!

We cleaned our desks...

We read in our book boxes and took AR tests on the Neo 2's....

We took a reading test and did our best!

Fun learnng on Halloween!

2011-10-31T17:03:00.001-07:00

We played lots of fun games at our party!

Thanks for the support of our Room 6 families and all of the party supplies sent!

Halloween Party!

2011-10-31T15:10:00.001-07:00

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Police officers and princesses worked hard, for what was to come....

2011-10-31T13:53:00.000-07:00

What fun we had doing our schoolwork on Halloween morning!

We practiced some word endings,

short i words,

shared our daily writing about things that grow,

and started on a Thanksgiving project!

Great website for parents!

2011-10-17T18:56:00.001-07:00

Check out this website for parents:
http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents/

Lunch Buddies!

2011-10-13T15:57:00.000-07:00

EVERYONE TURNED IN ALL OF THEIR HOMEWORK TODAY!! So we got to have Lunch Buddies for a reward! Each week, students turn in their homework on Thursdays. If a student completes and turns in all in on time, he/she gets a reward, such as free choice time, an extra recess, or lunch buddies (students get to eat wherever they want with their friends). Fun and free, and teaching students to take part in remembering to get things turned in on time. Great job being hard-working and responsible!

Workjobs in math!

2011-10-06T14:19:00.000-07:00

Today in math we learned about odd and even numbers! We also got to practice showing combinations of 4, using our math workjobs! They are so much fun!
Bacon and eggs!!
Meatballs and spaghetti!

Yum!

2011-09-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

Now and then we get to celebrate the birthday of a friend! Yummy!

Time for math!

2011-09-20T13:45:00.001-07:00

Today we were learning about graphs. What is your favorite color? We made a graph using our crayons! Answer our survey on the right to choose your favorite!

CATS!!

2011-09-16T07:44:00.000-07:00

We have been reading about Cats!

We made some really cool and colorful cats, in the style of artist Laurel Burch.

Parkside Elementary Staff with Buck

2011-09-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

Time for math!

2011-09-09T14:12:00.000-07:00

We are working hard in math! Sometimes we work in our chapter packets and these will come home when we are done with a chapter. Sometimes we use math manipulatives, like cubes, pattern blocks, and geoboards! It is very important to have some free exploration time with these before we work on specific math skills with them, so today we got to try out different things...

Spirt Week next week!

2011-09-09T12:27:00.000-07:00

Next week is Homecoming Week for the Tenino High School Beavers! We like to show a little spirit at Parkside, by having a dress up week too.
Monday 9/12 Red, White and Blue Day
Tuesday 9/13 Hat Day
Wednesday 9/14 Holiday or Vacation clothes Day
Thursday 9/15 Sports Day
Friday 9/16 Red & Black Day (THS senior football players will come for our assembly!)

1 week down!

2011-09-02T16:38:00.000-07:00

It has been a busy week in room 6! Students are learning to follow "the list," how to earn stamps in their row, how to sort, recycle, and compost their garbage after lunch, how we react in the case of a fire drill, and many other routines!
Whew, we needed a weekend!
Some students are new to spending the whole day at school and for them, it seems so long!
We have many students in classes this year, due to legislative budget cuts, which cut funding for lower class sizes. I could really use more parent volunteers to spend time in the morning working with kids and reading! If you have any mornings to spare, let me know!

Happy New Year!

2011-09-01T17:57:00.000-07:00

We are off to a great start in room 6!
Students have been busy making new friends, learning rules and routines and reviewing academic skills. We have many students in class this year and would love to have more parent volunteers working with students to be sure that all are learning and progressing towards end of the year goals. Please contact me if you can help!

Look at these smiling faces! Don't you just want to come and help?

Almost time for school to start again!

2011-08-10T16:40:00.001-07:00

I hope you have been busy playing and having fun with your family this summer!

I sure have!

I have been biking and kayaking and camping....

reading lots of good books,

some in the sunshine on the beach!

Soon I will be meeting many new first grade friends!
You can look through this blog to get some ideas about what we do in first grade!

If you want to send me a message or have any questions, please email me at the address above!

Popsicles too!

2011-06-15T17:38:00.003-07:00

When we were done running around and having fun, a popsicle sure tasted good!

Relays!

2011-06-15T17:37:00.001-07:00

Water Balloons!

2011-06-15T17:35:00.000-07:00

We had a water balloon toss!

Field Day Games and Relays

2011-06-15T17:32:00.000-07:00

We had fun at Field Day on Tuesday! We ran a water relay!

More VIP's

2011-06-13T07:18:00.000-07:00

We had moms and dads, horse riding teachers, and grandparents come for our VIP Lunch!

VIP Lunch!

2011-06-13T07:14:00.001-07:00

On Friday, we had our VIP Lunch and had lots of company!

Congrats Sophie!

2011-06-13T07:10:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Sophie Austel for all of her hard work in first grade! Sophie just graduated and was in our class each day this year helping the kids in room 6 become stronger readers. We wrote her a book of advice, since she is a grown up now! We had a little going away party for her last Tuesday!

A fabulous day at Tolmie State Park!

2011-06-03T18:39:00.000-07:00

Mother Nature cooperated and gave us a beautiful, sunny day to spend at Tolmie State Park today! You could probably tell how much fun we had by how dirty your child was and how much he or she smelled like the beach!! We had fun hikes in the woods, identifying plants and trees, and even more fun on the beach, finding sand dollars, crabs, and other sea life! Thanks to all chaperones for taking time out of busy schedules!

Upcoming Dates

2011-06-02T10:15:00.000-07:00

June 3....Tolmie State Park (photos to come!)
June 8....Late Start at 10:15 am, no breakfast at school,
Timberland Library Summer Reading Program Assembly at 11 am
June 9th..., "Think First" Assembly at 1:35 pm (about summer safety)
June 10th...Regular Friday morning assembly at 8:30
VIP Lunch!!! Each student may invite 1 adult for lunch in Room 6,
recess 11:35-12:05, lunch 12:05-12:40 pm
June 14th...First Grade Play Day 10-11 am (field day events)
June 17th...LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! Awesome assembly at 8:30 am, Early dismissal at 11:30
and no lunch served at school!

2011-05-31T21:14:00.001-07:00

We can't wait to go to the beach!
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Caterpillar's Life Cycle

2011-05-31T14:21:00.000-07:00

When we got our caterpillars they were small. They ate and ate and got bigger. Then they went to the top of the cup and made a chrysalis! The are now in their butterfly habitat and will soon hatch into butterflies!

Eric Carle study!

2011-05-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

Today we read and studied Eric Carle books and learned some new techniques. We learned that he paints paper with different texture and then uses them for collages for his illustrations. We used the bottoms of our shoes to create cool crayon rubbings on white paper. Then we used ordinary objects, like string, marbles, forks, and WAFFLES to make prints using paint on colored construction paper! Wow, that was a fun morning!!

Measuring in math!

2011-05-16T13:51:00.000-07:00

Today we started learning about measuring! We worked with partners and measured how many cubes, paper clips, and straws long we were!

Popcorn Party!

2011-05-15T11:59:00.001-07:00

Thanks to all of you parents for turning in the purple parent surveys! We won the popcorn party!

Art show

2011-05-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who came to our Art Show at Rockabilly's! Fun times!

AR Honor Roll for April!

2011-05-03T11:12:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to the following kids for scoring an average of 85% or higher on AR tests for the month of April! They made the AR Honor Roll!
Nik, Presley, Kira, Ashley, Joey, Abe, Emily, Will, Olivia, Paydon, Jake, Sam, and Cyrus
Woo hoo!

Guest Movie Makers!

2011-04-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

On Thursday, we had guest movie makers Laura and Robert Sams come and teach us all about getting ideas for writing, revising to make it our best, and publishing our work! They were so funny and we especially loved their fun animal voices and songs!

Music Assembly

2011-04-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday we had a fun assembly when Ric Zassenhaus came and played the guitar and taught us some fun songs! Many kids remembered them from Kindergarten. I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas....

Buddy Readers

2011-04-30T16:55:00.001-07:00

On Tuesday, we had buddy reading with Ms. Backman's class. We each chose two good books to take to the library and read to our buddies. We even made new friends!

BEAR Week!

2011-04-30T16:53:00.000-07:00

This week is BEAR Week, or Be Excited About Reading week! Today we had celebrity readers visit our classrooms to talk about their jobs and share a story.

Easter Math!

2011-04-22T14:25:00.001-07:00

We played a fun Easter math game with a funny egg and bunny die (one dice)! Then we turned the graph into addition problems! Math is fun!!!

Our final project!

2011-04-22T14:13:00.000-07:00

Today we used oil pastels to add color to our flowers. We only used the primary colors to blend into more! Boy they look great! It was messy work!

Almost done!

2011-04-21T14:47:00.001-07:00

Oh my, now it's getting exciting! All of our learning and hard work is going to create a fabulous piece of art!

Jumprope 4 Heart!

2011-04-21T14:42:00.001-07:00

We had time to get healthy and show off our jumprope tricks during our Jumprope 4 Heart time! Nice!

April 18, 2011

2011-04-21T14:25:00.000-07:00

Time to draw our flowers really big! We are adding details and primary colors!

2011-04-18T14:40:00.000-07:00

Today we learned about Georgia O'Keefe, the artist. Ask your child about who she was! We practiced using different lines and line qualities to draw a cute little furry creature and BIG flowers that go off the page!

Using different tools for writing and drawing

2011-04-15T14:25:00.000-07:00

Today, with our artist, we used different kinds of tools to draw lines. We painted with small and large brushes and small and large bamboo sticks! Wow! We liked some better than others. Then we tried drawing our flower using these different tools.

2011-04-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

CLASS PICTURE DAY TOMORROW! FRIDAY 4/15!

Drawing with pens

2011-04-14T13:43:00.000-07:00

Today we learned to add value to our drawings by drawing lines close together or far apart to show value, dark to light. This is called hatching. Cross hatching is when you make the lines cross over each other. We drew flowers and added shading and hatching. We also learned to draw a 3-D spaceship!

Drawing lessons

2011-04-12T13:44:00.000-07:00

Today we learned to draw different kinds of lines, geometric, and organic shapes! We learned that 2-D shapes have length and height, and 3-D have both of those, plus depth. That makes them look like they stick out or that we could read right around the back of them! Organic shapes are those from nature. They won't be just a square or circle. They will have lots of different lines in visible.

2011-04-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

We also learned to turn a 2-D birthday cake into one that looks 3-D! We kept adding different kinds of lines and embellishments!

2011-04-11T15:19:00.000-07:00

Acting like angled lines and horizontal lines!

Art!

2011-04-11T15:06:00.000-07:00

Today our guest artist Ms. Kates came to teach us about lines. She told us a story about a straight line that turned curvy, twirly, creeping, angled, and bumpy! We acted out different kids of lines!

AR Honor Roll for March!

2011-03-31T13:31:00.000-07:00

March has come to an end and I would like to recognize those students who have an AR average of 85% or higher for the month.

Congratulations to.....
Cyrus, Paydon, Olivia, Casey, Emily, Abe, Ashley, Kira, Nik, and Mariana!!

Concert

2011-03-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

First grade had a fabulous concert! We sang songs about animals, in English and Spanish. Some were really funny! Lots of kids dressed up!

AR HONOR ROLL!

2011-03-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

Each month we will be having an AR Honor Roll, honoring those students who have achieved an 85% average or higher on AR tests for the month.
For the month of February, these students made this honor roll:
Cyrus, Sam, Cheyenne, Keegan, Olivia, Will, Emily, Abe, Joey, Ashley, Kira, and Nik

CONGRATULATIONS for reading carefully at your independent reading level!

SNOW!

2011-02-23T14:56:00.000-08:00

They say there is a big storm coming! But it only takes a little snow to make us happy....that is, IF we have a warm coat!

Valentine's Day!

2011-02-23T14:48:00.000-08:00

We had a fun Valentine's Day and party at school! It is always fun to give and receive cards from our friends. We also played some Valentine's BINGO with candy as markers, had treats, and even got goodie bags!
Thanks for all the parents who sent supplies!

2011-02-11T12:35:00.000-08:00

Today is the 100th day of school!

2011-02-11T12:31:00.000-08:00

Every student brought something different for the 100th day of school!

Crazy Hair Day!

2011-02-11T11:24:00.000-08:00

We earned 50 Positive Penguins and decided to have Crazy Hair Day! Do we look a little different?

2011-02-11T11:23:00.000-08:00

Twins!

Math designs

2010-12-09T13:42:00.001-08:00

In math we have been learning about Geometry and using lots of fun shapes. Look at this cool design using pattern blocks. It has symmetry!

Run 4 Fun!

2010-12-07T12:17:00.000-08:00

We are trying to get into the 200 Lap Club! Gotta get those laps!
Mr. Thummel is keeping his deal with Sophie...because the Cougars lost, he must wear a Husky shirt for the day! This is a good lesson for kids....when you make a deal, you must keep your word!

Parkside Proud!

2010-12-03T10:11:00.000-08:00

We got our new Parkside shirts!

Regular week??

2010-12-01T07:24:00.000-08:00

We thought we had a regular week coming with all normal days, but we were wrong! The power was out for about and hour and a half yesterday and we don't know why? We just went on with our day, doing our normal things! It was kind of an adventure! We had to have special lights in the bathroom.

Snowy Day!

2010-11-22T12:23:00.000-08:00

We are having a great snowy day at Parkside! Even though we had a late start today, we are very busy! We made a special turkey project and we got to go outside for recess and play in the snow! For lunch we had turkey gravy on mashed potatoes and little pumpkin pies!!! Yummy!

Halloween Party!

2010-10-30T09:29:00.000-07:00

Smiles with friends!

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costumes!

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Brides, and vampires, and hippies, oh my!!

Halloween

2010-10-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

Even in costumes, the kids in Room 6 take a weekly reading test seriously!

2010-10-20T21:33:00.000-07:00

sorry for no recent posts, our classroom camera died! So attempting to take some with webcam, but it's just a bit harder....

2010-10-15T10:27:00.000-07:00

The boys are drawing and writing in their journals! The webcam makes it look like they wrote backwards! Yikes!

October

2010-10-15T10:21:00.001-07:00

Mrs. Taylor gets the webcam ready to take some pictures!

Composting!

2010-10-04T12:38:00.001-07:00

Food to Flowers!

2010-09-29T15:28:00.000-07:00

Today we started a new recycling program. It is called Food to Flowers and we are now learning to recycle food scraps and paper to turn into compost! We learned to sort our lunch garbage into garbage, recyclables, and compost. Yesterday we had 40 pounds of lunch garbage and today we only had 4 pounds! Wow! We are saving the Earth and money on our garbage bill!

Reading together!

2010-09-29T15:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of us reading with a partner! Our story was called A Party for Bob.

Time for art!

2010-09-24T11:20:00.000-07:00

Today we did our first art lesson from our Arts Attack curriculum! We learned about making different kinds of lines and made a line turtle! Stop by and see our finished products on the bulletin board outside of Room 6!

This Week

2010-09-17T11:27:00.001-07:00

At free choice time we can play with Legos! They are fun! We can build motorhomes and tall houses.

Someone had a birthday. We had cupcakes. We made her a special birthday book. We sang her a country Happy Birthday song!!

We like to play on the computers! We have games like Math Rabbit. We like the computers!

Full Week

2010-09-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

We are back to work and play at school! Today we got to play the card game War to see if we know which number is more. It was fun playing with a partner. We are learning to write our letters neatly.

First Grade

2010-09-08T13:47:00.000-07:00

We have been playing games, like the ABC game. We love our teacher! We like recess! We are learning how to write. We have been learning how to read. We have been eating awesome lunch! We are learning how to be safe and have good manners. We are learning to be quick and ready to earn stamps for prizes! FIRST GRADE IS AWESOME!!!

Happy New Year!

2010-08-19T07:44:00.000-07:00

We are just about to begin a new school year at Parkside! I look forward to meeting my new first graders and their parents and starting off a great year in Room 6!
If you wish to send me a message you can add a comment below or email me at taylorc@tenino.k12.wa.us .

Last Day of School!

2010-06-16T10:58:00.001-07:00

The boys are dancing with joy at the ball (celebrating the last day of school!).

The girls are looking cool on the last day of school!

Mr. Williams and Mr. Thummel look cute! At first they were hiding and whining and did not want to come out! Ha ha! They are dressed like babies because reached our 90,000 lap goal!
They drank baby milk from a bottle, and ate baby food! That was from Carlow....That was funny!
We told Mrs. George goodbye and good luck as she retires!
Some kids got 30-minute jogger awards!
Some kids got fitness awards!
2 kids won bikes and some kids got "Excellent Attendance" awards for missing 3 or less days of school.