Hello Everyone!
Happy Spring Break to those of you on break!  Today, it was a rainy, rainy day here.  Great day for cleaning out closets!! And blogging!! Sorry it's been a while! We were so busy getting ready for Open House last week, I was exhausted every night when I got home. And then...we got hit with snow!! It was so beautiful and so fun, and tah dah!!...Snow day on Open House day! We will have to reschedule...so sad. We were so ready to show off!!
I finally decided to share some of what the kids had done. (If you are one of my parents and still want to be surprised when we do have open house, don't look at this next section.)
Our first graders focused on hats as the backdrop for showing off our learning!   Hats that historic figures wore, hats that cowboys wear, party hats, newspaper hats, favorite hats.  We had so much fun learning through George Washington and his tricorn hat.



















 

Hello Everyone,
We finished up our study of presidents this week. We loved learning about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Throughout our studies, both important men became like friends.  We learned some amazing things about the childhood of each and some interesting little tidbits about when they were adults.  We had fun comparing the two even though they lived many years apart.  They had so many similarities and, of course, so many differences.  
We loved that they each wore hats...each for different reasons, but both wore their hats with pride!
While studying Washington, we discovered that he wore a tricorn hat as did many of the soldiers of whom he was the general. Many soldiers wore little trinkets on their hats. Washington often wore a feather. 
While studying Lincoln, we discovered that he stored notes and other important papers in his tall black stovepipe hat.  
We, of course, had to make hats to go along with our studies. Here are some pics!

Looooove the "clean socks" addition to our brainstorming!!

  

Hello Again Everyone!
I wanted to quickly share our upcoming Reading/Social Studies Integrated Unit.The next couple of weeks will be focused on some of our presidents. We put together a little unit to help celebrate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and February is the perfect month to learn through reading about these historical figures! Here are a couple of pics from our unit!

Make a tricorn hat! A fun hands on visual!!

Hello Everyone!
It is so nice to have time to put some finishing touches on a couple of units that we have coming up! Another historical figure we will study after Eleanor Roosevelt is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a nation we celebrate his life daily! Thank you Dr. King! Officially we celebrate on the third Monday of January. I have posted about our activities before, but I went through and cleaned up, and added to my unit.  Here are some pics from the updated unit!


















 So glad I had time to share these endeavors!  Hope you can use at least parts of either one!  It is my joy to be able to share and help your journey in the classroom or homefront become a little less stressful. As always, please let me know if this is something you can use, if there are any typos or problems, and if you would like to see something else in particular on this little blog.  I hear from teachers and parents from all over the world, and I am so grateful for all of you!!  
Joyfully!
Nancy