Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Monday!   Here are some cubist still life projects

inspired by Le Jour painted by Georges Braque

Our class is thankful for so many things!

Book Orders and a math review sheet came home today.  You have until December 2nd to order from the book order.  Thank you Mrs. Adam for helping with this.

Remember that Wednesday is a half day this week.

This class continues to be an exuberant group of writers.   They love writing time and are so proud to share what they have written.  Each Monday we make sure to give everyone a chance to read aloud their writing.  They also love having their writing photographed for you to see.

Madelyn writing about a birthday party she went to....

 Nelah writing about her trip to Disneyland...

And Roan writing about Christmas...

Monday Update

Thank you for sending in all those gorgeous leaves.  Here is a sneak peak at what we made today...

They will need to dry, then be fired, then be painted and fired once again.  We are hoping to have them totally done by mid December.  Thank you so much to Shuko Mantooth and Caroline Adam for assisting with this today!

We also studied the art of Pierre Auguste Renoir and how he creates impressionist trees.    Each first grader created his or her own impressionist fall tree landscape.

First grade writing this week by Grant:

And some photos of all those great leaf projects that were done at home:

Students will have art docent this Friday with the wonderful Ms. Dayab.

Monday Update

We've been collecting leaves and making some terrific projects.  Students have been sharing their projects with the class and we are so inspired.

Today, we made leaf prints....

Thank you Mrs. Fornia for helping with our set up and clean up today.  It was messy!

 Here is a picture of the owls we made last Thursday....

Thank you Mrs. Gupta for putting up our art in the hall today.

Here's some wonderful first grade writing for this week:

Shira brought in a map of the world to show us where Israel is located.  She will be moving with her family on December 15th.   As we looked at the map, we noticed that lots of us have traveled far and wide.  We put post-it notes on all the places our classmates have been. 

Class Photographers:    Please send recent party and field trip photos to our school's Yearbook committee so that they may use these for our class photo page.   Amy Neumann (amyneu28@hotmail.com) or Stephanie Hurley (stephhurley@mac.com)

Exchange Students From Japan:   We learned all about origami last week when we were visited by a group of Japanese exchange students.

Happy Halloween!

What a wonderful Halloween we had today!   Take a look at our chalk pastel pumpkins... can you see them glowing in the moonlight?

Thanks so much to our party planners:   Mrs. Adam and Mrs. Dimitrou

and to all our wonderful helpers:   Mrs. King, Mr. Nilsen, Ms. Santana, Ms. Kaminishi, Mrs. Gupta, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Cung, Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Dorwin, Mrs. Moriarty, Mrs. Hastings, Ms. Darab.  

Thank you also to our field trip chaperones:  Mr. Reed, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Dorwin, Mrs. Jones, Ms. Santana,and  Mrs. Adam

Besides all our halloween fun.. we did some amazing writing, reading, and math today.  I will post pictures of some fabulous first grade writing later this week.

It's a Scream in 1st Grade

Today we learned about Edvard Munch's The Scream and the Expressionist art style.  Munch painted his feelings in this painting so we decided to express ourselves just like him.

Our fabulous first grade writers continue to amaze me with their hard work.  Today I'd like to share writing by:

Henry:

Christian:

Ayzlyn:

 Nima:

and David:

We also had a visit by the Kirkland Fire Fighters and they talked about safety and how to Stop, Drop, and Roll.

Remember that our field trip to Craven's pumpkin patch is this Friday.

Have a wonderful Monday.