New Song from Slovenia

Here is the new song our friends in Slovenia sent us. We are working hard to learn this one. We like sharing songs!

Zajček dolgoušček,
bel imaš kožušček,
hitre tačke, ostre zobke,
dolge brke, repek siv.

S kravico stanuješ,
v hlevu poskakuješ,
repo glodaš in korenje,
deteljico in krompir.

Vsakemu uideš,
k meni vselej prideš,
s smrčkom vohaš, prst poližeš,
potlej pa vesel zbežiš. 

The translation goes a bit like this:

Long-eared bunny ,
You have white fur,
speedy paws, sharp teeth,
long whiskers, gray tail.

You live with cow,
jump around the barn,
nibble turnips and carrots,
clover and potatoes.

You escape from everyone
but always come to me,
you smell with your nose, lick my finger
and then run away happily.

Playing Before and After

We are playing a math game called Before and After. You each get 6 cards, and you each put 1 card on the top. Now you see if you have a number that is before or after.

We worked in pairs and groups. It was fun and the cards were colorful, and we wrinkled our brains with numbers. We worked hard at the game. We are getting better at games!

Happy New Year from the Crickets!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukkah, and Happy New Year
 from The Crickets! We dressed as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for our school holiday party. It was wonderful!

Vesel božič to our friends in Slovenia!

Love and Hope

A light of love and hope for the children and teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Thanksgiving

Abby - I am thankful for our teacher, and our friends, and our parents, and the library.
Nevaeh - I am thankful for having great parents that give me things like my lessons, and my whole family, ABCs, and numbers.
Matt - I am thankful for my teacher, my family, and my aunt, and everybody else.
Ava - I am thankful for my mom and my daddy, and my cats and dogs.
Nar - I am thankful for the world, and for Thanksgiving, and for all the good things people have done in the past years, and for people.
CJ - I am thankful for my brother, and my family, and my aunt and grammy, and for homework.
Bree - I am thankful for everyone, and my family, and my friends, writing, and learning to be techies.
Rory - I am thankful for my family, my teacher, Thanksgiving, and my friends.
Kara - I am thankful for the world, and the trees.
Talia -  I am thankful for my mom, dad, Thanksgiving, my grammy and poppa, and Maddy, my dog, and my cats.
Julius  - I am thankful for my mom.
Kaedynce - I am thankful for my friends, my family, and the whole entire world, and my teacher, and nature. 
Camren - I am thankful for the earth, and for books and stories.
Vinnie - I am thankful that I can help other people, and I am thankful for my family, and my pets.

We are all thankful for:
our friends in Slovenia, life, our IWB, books and stories, our blog, Tweets, our school, art, our warm beds, earth, God, Jesus, food, polite words, singing together, music, our teacher's iPad, learning to read,  new friends we meet.

We're thankful for the chance to give thanks together at Thanksgiving! 




  



   






 

Happy 50th Day of School

Today is the 50th day of school! We brainstormed 50 words about our classroom. We are half way to 100 days!

For The Pine Cones, our friends in Slovenia

 

We worked very hard on this. We learned it! We really like this song. Thank you for sharing it. Would you please send us another song? 

Our Monsters

We made silly monsters by using an app on our teacher's iPad. We enjoyed making them look silly. We printed them and wrote about them. We had fun and we gave our monsters silly names like Scrambled Socks.

Nevaeh's Haunted House

In the haunted house there's ghosts that go around in circles and crash! Oh no, zombies! Run !!! Ahhh, thump... ouchy!  Oh no! I'm going to get chased by zombies again. They chase me around the kitchen, and bats flew in my hair. And I hit the exit.

Ava's Haunted House

 

I am a ghost. A scary, scary ghost. I live in the haunted house. There are monsters in there. You don't go in there. It's really, really scary. I'm warning you! Boo!!! Grrrr!!! Rahhhrrr!!! What's that? It's a ghost! The ghost tripped over a rock and I hid behind the door. I left.

Talia's Haunted House

I tiptoed in the haunted house and I saw bats flying everywhere. I went in the closet and saw a monster. It growled at me. A skeleton was following me around wherever I went, but I escaped and sailed across the sea all the way to Maine.

CJ's Haunted House

I went into a haunted house and there was a monster. There was an owl, and there was a ghost. They chased me out of the house!

Bree's Haunted House

Me and my friend went to the Haunted House. Drip! We heard something. It was Frankenstein washing his hands. We thought that was crazy. Then we saw bats. They were flying. We thought that was normal. They chased us to California. It was not a nice trip!

Vinnie's Haunted House

There was a ghost in my house. Booooo! Booooo!

Abby's Haunted House

Hi! I'm in the haunted house and I see a witch. She said, "Whuh-ha-ha. You are spooked." I want to get out of this house. I ran around the house and the witch followed me. I got out through the window.

Nar's Haunted House

I quietly walked in the haunted house. I saw bats sleeping upside down. When I opened a few doors I came to a little door and I saw zombies from World War II. Then I quietly walked outside. And the floor creaked as I walked out of the haunted house. It was very scary. Boo!

Rory's Haunted House

Swish! What was that? That was a bat. Goblins are everywhere. There are skeletons everywhere. I am brave. I am not scared. Go away skeletons! Go away goblins! Go away flying bats! Go away scary stuff! BOO!

Kara's Haunted House

Look! There is something creepy! What is that? I think it is a ghost. I hope not. It is a ghost! "Boo!" It said boo. I crept out.

HALLOWEEN!

Abby - I'm going to be a witch.
CJ - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Nar - I'm going to be a witch.
Rory - I'm going to be Rapunzel.
Cam - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Julius - I'm going to be Captain Jack Sparrow.
Talia - I'm going to be Cleopatra.
Kaedynce - I'm going to be a vampire beauty queen.
Nevaeh - I'm going to be a ladybug.
Matt - I'm going to be a firefighter.
Vinnie - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Bree - I'm going to be a skeleton.
Kara - I'm going to be a bow hunter.
Ava - I'm going to be Minnie Mouse.

That's what Halloween is about!     

       

POPCORN TIME

We read The Secret of Spooky House. The secret was that the monsters in the house ate popcorn. The story made us hungry! We decided we wanted to eat some popcorn. We used a hot air popper, and we got a big monster-sized bowl from the cafeteria to hold the popcorn. We watched the popcorn kernels pop. We each made two paper containers for the popcorn. We designed the containers ourselves. We used tape to hold the containers together. We had to decide which container we made would hold the most popcorn, and then our teacher filled that container. Some of our containers held 3 scoops! We each got 1 scoop of popcorn. We ate our popcorn while we listened to The Popcorn Dragon story. 

 

It's Fall!

It was a beautiful fall day, so we went for a  walk because we wanted to make pictures out of leaves. We were walking down the street near our school. We were looking down to collect leaves. We saw golden leaves, red leaves, and yellow leaves. Some leaves were still green. We found some maple helicopter seeds and some pine cones. We met a neighbor who said we could go all over this fields the next time we went out for a walk. On the way back we kicked through the crunchy, crackly leaves. It was fun!

It was a very sunny day. We traced each other's shadows outside on the playground using sidewalk chalk. Sidewalk chalk is big and thick. We stood still and made funny shapes with our body. We wrote our names on our shadows.

We wrote our Star Words all over the playground. We wrote them very big. Then we played Star Word Tag. When our teacher called a Star Word we had to run and find it. Then we stood on it. When we were finished we did a Sun Dance, then we laid in the sun to catch our breath.

 

Kuzha Pazi

Here is the song we are learning in Slovenian:

KUZHA PAZI, Z REPKOM MIGA                  The dog watches out, waves with its tail        

VSTANE, LEZHE, TACHKO DA                     stands up, lies down, gives you its paw,

HISHO CHUVA, JEZNO LAJA                        it guards the house, barks angrily

CHE NIKOGAR NI DOMA                              if no one is at home.

KO PA JURCHEK CICIBANCHEK                 When little boy Jurček    (Yurchek)

TRUDEN SE ODPRAVI SPAT                       goes to sleep all tired

KUZHA PAZI, K VRATOM LEZHE                 the doggy guards him, lies down by the door

DA NE VZAME JURCHKA TAT                    so that the thief can't steal him.

Our friends in Slovenia sent us a video.

  We are working very hard to learn this song!

Purple Day!

We had Purple Day. We wore all the purple clothing we had. We each brought in a purple surprise. We had purple plums for snack. Julius' mom sent us purple grapes. We froze them for snack in the afternoon. They were purple delicious! We made tally marks for all our purple things. There were 51 tally marks, plus all of our purple surprises! We even took a purple picture with our student teacher.

We want a purple-wonderful year!

A DOZEN DAYS IN FIRST GRADE!

Our class name is The Crickets, and we have been in First Grade for a dozen days.
 
Vinnie - I like working on my teacher's iPad.

Abby - I like watching our crickets.

Nar - I like seeing my teacher.

Brianna - I like writing, and singing at Morning Meeting.

Nevaeh - I like coloring at Choice Time.

Ava - I like singing together, especially our Peanut Butter Song.

Rory - I like being with my teacher, and reading.

CJ - I like building with the big blocks.

Talia - I like doing art and singing together.

Kaedynce - I like putting poems in our big, fat Poem Book, and I like to EEKK.

Kara - I like using Play-Doh and sharing news at Morning Meeting.

We all like using our teacher's iPad, having a sand box, spending time together, singing, being Chief Cricket, and doing Banana Split. First Grade is fun!