Valentine's Day Party!

Valentine's Day!

Last Wednesday, we celebrated Valentine’s Day. In the afternoon, the children had their valentine’s party. They passed out their valentines, created adorable heart thumbprint bookmarks, listened to Valentine stories, played Valentine memory match, colored Valentine pictures, and played the Movement Heart Game. There were lots of smiles and giggles along the way!

A special thank you to our room reps Mrs. Nierman and Mrs. Cecola for organizing and prepping the craft and games for our party. Also, a BIG Thank You to Mrs. Nierman Mrs. Wilkin, Mrs. Pace, Mrs. Velazquez, Mrs. Weiner, Mrs. Spors, and Mr. Gold who attended the party and ran the stations. You made our party a huge success! Thank you!

I would like to thank all of you for making my Valentine’s SO SPECIAL. I loved all my valentines, chocolate flowers, gifts, and yummy treats. 
Thank you so much!

Click on the link below to view photos from our Valentine’s Day Fun!
Fun Photos

100th Day, Day of Play, and Art Party Fun!

Hello 1-1 Families!

What a fun week we had last week! Read about it below!

100th Day!

Last Wednesday, the children celebrated the 100th day of school. They looked great dressed up like they were 100! The children enjoyed participating in an assortment of 100th day activities. They created a 100th day crown showing different ways to make 100. The children heard the story, 100th Day Worries. Later in the day, the children created artwork using the numbers 1, 0, 0. Then, they created a story about their artwork. Please check these out in the hallway during conferences this coming week! The children were also excited to work on an assortment of 100th STEM math stations. We had a wonderful 100th day of school!

Click Here to view more awesome 100th Day photos! 

Day of Play!

The children had so much fun last Wednesday afternoon participating in Global School Play Day. All afternoon, the children engaged in unstructured play! I was so amazed to watch their teamwork, creativity, and perseverance during this time! They had so much fun playing with one another and organizing different activities around the classroom. This year, there were 563,283 participants from 75 Nations involved in Global School Play Day. That's amazing! The children reflected on Day of Play throughout the afternoon by adding their thoughts to different chart paper questions around the room. 

Click here to view some fun photos of our afternoon!

Art Party!

On Thursday morning, the children celebrated filling the warm fuzzy jar with an Art Party! They had a wonderful time painting, beading, creating, drawing, and working together! I loved seeing what they created, we have some very talented artist and designers in the room! Everyone shared their materials with one another and enjoyed creating together :)

Click Here for photos of our Art Party.

Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun!
It looks like the Halloween Party was so much fun! Thank you to all the parent volunteers for planning, donating materials, and running the party! You made the day so much fun for the kids! Please click the link below to view photos from the party! Thank you Mrs. Nierman for putting these together! 

Halloween Photos

Thank You Mrs. Bolithon!
I want to say a big thank you to Mrs. Bolithon! Thank you for kicking off the year with the children and helping them settle into first grade! It looks like they had an incredible start to the year. They've learned and grown so much! Thank you! We appreciate you! We're so glad that we'll still get to see you around Dryden in your new role! 

I'm excited to be back in the classroom tomorrow and to get to know all the children! Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and see you soon!

Pumpkin Decorating Day!

Thank you to all of our pumpkin partners who came in to help our students decorate pumpkins.  After weighing and measuring and making predictions about our (rather big) pumpkins this morning, we set about decorating them this afternoon.  Here are some photos of the fun we had...

STEAM DAY Photos

10/3/19

Sue Schinkel- Komatsu

building simple levers and experimenting

building simple levers and experimenting

 March Animal Hospital- vet techs

Sajid Patel - Technology- Optimal Design Co.

Jim Meyers- Artsonia

Katie Weiner - Surgical Assistant

Our own surgical assitants!

Mandy Madsen- Exterior Design

We also had a visitor, Lt. Aleckson, from Arlington Heights Fire Department on 10/4.

What an exciting week!

September in Mrs. Johnson's 1-1 Class

We have been very busy in Mrs. Johnson's Class!

Here are just a few fun photos of what we've been doing:

Number Bonds

Freckle Math

Rhyming Words

Rhyming Words

Being with friends

Being with friends

Music for Youth Assembly

Remembrance Day

Our new writing curriculum

Mrs. Johnson and baby Beckett visited us as our Royal Reader!

Hello 1-1 Families!  We have now moved on to our second month at school and are getting used to new routines and enjoying new friendships.  Students are ready to begin their guided reading groups and will be bringing home book bags at least once a week with their weekly book and site word sticker book.  1-1 loves their reading workshop and we have been learning a lot already about different book genres, note taking and how to pick a 'just right' book while reading in a 'just right' spot.  

We are just completing our unit on Community Helpers and will be having a visitor from the Arlington Heights Fire Station next week!

In math we are finishing up our second unit on number bonds, which builds on our first unit on counting.  We've been using a lot of manipulatives like number blocks and a number balance to gain a stronger understanding of these early math concepts.  

Students love our new writing curriculum and while filling up their journals, are also filling their writing binders with structured writing on things they like, how they help, what they want to be, and what they like to do with their friends.  The focus is on cultivating a joy of written expression, while we gradually build up our word skills in the process.  

Mrs. Johnson came to visit us with Baby Beckett!  The students were all so excited to have her read them a story and stay for a visit.  

Happy Fall!