We FINALLY earned our mini party for the week with following our class' 5 rules! We broke out the parachute and look at all the fun we had!

Election Day!

We were learning about America all week. Today we learned about voting. After reading Duck For President.  We held an election to see who should run the farm.

Voting Booths

Waiting patiently to vote!

Casting a ballot

Choosing the best candidate

Casting his vote!

The "secret" ballot

Election Results

The people have spoken and Farmer Brown is the man for the job!

Self Managers!

We have our first self managers!  They are super excited and I am so proud of them.  

Centers

We are busy learning in first grade!  We are learning our new first grade centers.  Check out our focus!

Finding sight words in sand bottles

Making words with magnetic letters

A "king" doing some royal reading!

Word hunting

We love reading in first grade!

Thank you!

Just wanted to tell everyone thank you so much for all your generosity in donating items to our classroom.  We will be clean, organized, and colorful all year.  Thank you so much for supporting our class and learning.

Ms. Tan

Survivor Island

To cap off our unit about economics and financial planning we played Survivor Island.  The class earned "income" during the past few weeks.  Their task was to shop and survive on a desert island.  They were able to shop at a toy story, grocery store, REI, and clothing store.  

Many students were able to survive having met their basic needs but only 2 were able to survive the harsh challenges that were thrown in to whittle down the group.  Here are our 2 very well prepared survivors.  They are ready to brave the wild! Congratulations!

Camp Tan

We had a blast a Camp Tan today.  We had camping stations and earned badges.  Some of us even mastered tying our shoes!

Here are some of our "happy campers"!