Apple Pickin Time

 In honor of John Chapman a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed here are some great sites for you to enjoy.  We studied the famous Johnny Appleseed and taste tested apples this week.  The students also learned the life cycle of the apple tree and read numerous poems and books about apples.

Story of Johnny Appleseed-Weekly Reader

Crispy's Applestand Stories and Activities

5 Red Apples-Song by Harry Kindergarten

Below are some of the picture books we enjoyed about apples.

Upcoming Field Trip

Please check out the "Field Trip" page at the top of this blog.  It will give you important information pertaining to our upcoming field trip to The Peach Tree Farm in Boonville, MO.  FYI:  All permission slips and forms for the field trip will be sent home in your child's Friday folder this Friday, September 23, 2011.  All permission slips and the cost for the field trip ($7.00) is due back by next Friday, September 30, 2011.  The cost includes admission into The Peach Tree Farm (pays for admission and food to feed the animals) and the cost of transportation.

http://hogansfirstgrade.blogspot.com/p/field-trip.html

Attention

School will be dismissing at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow Friday, September 16th for Staff Professional Development.  If your child will go home a different way than normal, you must bring in a note or call the elementary office.

Pictures of Learning

Take a peak at some of the learning activties from the past few weeks.



Surveying the class for Our Favorite Colors Bar Graph.



More math surveying...

Writer's Worskhop...The students using their workshop
time to write new stories.

Look at these fabulous pieces of work.

We read Joy Cowley's "The Farm Concert." 
We then discussed the difference between a word and a sentence.

Students cutting apart words and glueing them to
make a sentence from the story "The Farm Concert."



Completed sentences.  The illustrated sentences can be found
in the first grade hallway.