Science ROCKS!

The kids have been working with soil and rocks the past few weeks in Mrs. Sheeran's science class!

All Dressed Up!

What a good looking group of kids. :) I am so proud of them! You have received holiday party and play information. If you have any questions about either, please let me know!

AR Party - Minute to Win It!

33 1st graders reached their 1st quarter AR goal, and they had a party today! We played Minute to Win It games. Congrats to the students who made their goal. We are very proud of you!

For the first game, they had to use a straw to transfer a smarties from a cup to a plate. Take a look!

For the second game, Face the Cookie, the kids had to use only the muscles in their face to get a cookie from their forehead to their mouth. This was challenging, but so much fun! Take a look!

Happy Halloween!

Subtraction!

We are working on subtraction this week! The students will be able to use circle drawings and equations to help them solve subtraction problems. Here is a fun video we have been singing along with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPa9V2wtZs

Spanish Class

We are lucky to have 2 high school students come for 20 minutes each week to teach us Spanish. This week we worked on numbers in Spanish. Ask your child if they can count to 10 in Spanish!

It's a Girl!

I was very excited to tell the kids that my husband and I are expecting a baby girl! My due date is February 24th. They got pink suckers today, and they are already helping me pick out names! :)

Chicken Dance!

The Homecoming KING Easton and QUEEN Kennedy visited our class today! They were our special guest for winning the turkey and chicken food drive. They taught us the chicken dance! :) Nurse Sonja also read us a book about a chicken!

Visit to the Janesville Fire Station!

Homecoming Pictures

We had a fantastic homecoming week! Here are some pictures!

Also, our class won the canned chicken/turkey food drive for the food shelf! Way to go! Thank you for donating!

Traveling Trophy!

The traveling trophy is something new this year. Elementary staff members put in votes for classes who are "traveling" from place to place respectfully, responsibly, and safe. We have been working very hard at staying level 0 and keeping self to self in the hallway. I am so happy to announce that we are the first class to receive the trophies! Way to go first grade! I am so proud of all your hard work!

Math Videos!

Hello families! 
 As many of you know we started a new series last year, Math Expressions.  This program is awesome, but some of the strategies are quite different from how we learned math in elementary school.  So to help with that process we have made a tutorial to go along with the homework coming home in Thursday folder. I have created a new "Math Videos" page up top. The first video is posted! If you ever have questions about homework, please ask!

Happy Learning!
Mrs. Leiferman

PAWSitive Behavior!

HI 1st grade families and friends!
We had a fantastic second week. :) I gave out a lot of PAWS to students who were being safe, responsible, and respectful. We got 3 compliments in the hallway today from other adults for our behavior! Way to go! Please continue to encourage your child to earn those PAWS cards!

We did our first art project today... take a look! I can already tell that I have 22 creative kids this year!

1st Week!

We had an OUTSTANDING first week of school! :) I am so proud of every student in our class. We worked really hard this week on procedures and expectations. Next week, we will begin our "regular" schedule.

The first math homework packet will be in Thursday folders next week, and it is due back to school by the following Thursday.

The first spelling homework sheet will be sent home on September 25th, and those sheets will also be due back the following Thursday.

If you ever have any questions or concerns about homework, please let me know right away!

I am excited to work with all of you this year!

Mrs. Leiferman

* I have updated the "A Look into this Week" and "Spelling/Sight word" tabs up top. I will update them every Friday from now on! If you notice I haven't updated it, PLEASE send me an email to remind me. :) I will do it asap!

Welcome to First Grade!

This blog will be an additional way to keep our 1st grade families updated on what is going on in our classroom. I hope you enjoy and take advantage of our blog. On this site, you will be able to find upcoming events, spelling/sight words, test dates, birthdays, and much more! Please let me know if you have ideas to make this site more useful.

I hope you are as excited as me for the 2014-2015 school year! See you soon! :) 

Painting Like Michelangelo

Today we learned about the artist Michelangelo. Did you know it took him 4 years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?! He was famous for painting, sculpting, designing buildings, and poetry.

We pretended we were painting the ceiling of a building like Michelangelo did. Take a look!

Happy Earth Day!

Great projects 1st Grade!

You Reached Your Goal!

Congrats to the 11 students who reached their AR goal this quarter. We celebrated today with some cupcakes and games! We played draw the tail on the donkey, draw the beard on the minion, and draw a nose on Olaf! It was a blast. :)