Chapter 11: Snoop Frog

It has been a few weeks since my last update.  Finding time to update here lately has been tough!  So many things going on, and so little time.  Anyway, here is an update of the past 2 weeks:

What we have learned in 1st Grade:

-article adjectives (a, an, the)

-addition & subtraction

-classifying plants & animals

-reading can be fun!

-class pets are a lot of work...

Yes, you read that correctly; class pets...

We have a new member to our class family.  We already had Mr. Bojangles, you remember, I'm sure.  Well yet again, on the playground the kids caught another frog.  I figured it would be ok to keep this one so that Mr. BoBo would have a friend.

I let the kids vote on a name for the new frog.  I picked a few choices and then let them vote.  Here are the results:

Albert - 8

Buffy - 2

Lucille - 0

Snoop Frog - 9

Snoop Frog & Mr. Bojangles are happy in their new home with each other!  

                                            Here are a few pics of them:

               Mr. Bojangles & Snoop Frog in their new home: Planet Frog

                                               playing "Leap Frog"

                                  Mr. Bojangles having a nice swim

                   Snoopy is smaller and much more lady-like than Mr. Bo

One of my closest friends, who teaches 3rd grade at my school, came up with a great idea.  She brought her class of 3rd graders to my 1st grade class to have a "Buddy Read" time together.  We paired up one (a few groups of two) 1st graders per one 3rd grader.  The 3rd grade student read a book of their choice to a 1st grader.  And then the 1st graders got to choose a book and read it to their 3rd grade partner.  I have lots of pictures of the Buddy Read, and some pictures of all of us together.  I plan to do an article write-up and send it to the newspaper!  The students had a wonderful time meeting and reading with their partner!  We will continue to Buddy Read once a month.  It was a great success! :)

1st Grade Funnies:

Student: "Mih Lemon, I got a cricket in my neck."

Me: "A cricket?  How did you get a cricket in your neck?"

Student: "I don't know, but he hurts."

Me: "I'm sorry that silly ole cricket is in your neck, maybe he'll come out later today."

In one of our journal entries the students had to write a complete sentence about A Flying Alligator.  One of the sentences read:  "A big fresh flying alligator."

Do you know what the meaning of "fresh" in that sentence is?  "Cool."

Student: "Mih Lemon, I had a asident."

Me: (thinking to myself "not again!!")  "An accident?  Where?"

Student: "In my pants."

Me: "Why?"

Student: "Because I had to sneeze and it came out..."

Luckily, there was not much of an accident, so everything was fine!

We have been on Fall Break for the beginning of this week, and I have truly enjoyed the time off to rest and recuperate.  We have 3 days of school left this week.  And 3 days of school next week due to Report Card Day and a Field Trip.  

Thanksgiving Break will be here soon!