Rockin' Out!

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated this class blog. It's been so busy lately so this post will be a catching up blog for the last 2-3 weeks.  Things are settling down for a little until our first grade dance on March 10th. Our Lunar New Years show was a success. We had a packed house and completely sold all the seat tickets. I’m so proud of the kids’ performance. I’ll be honest…I was nervous for them but they got on that stage and rocked it. I got lots of compliments from other teachers on how well the kids did. The children may keep their costumes and leave them at home. February 19^th is the officially Lunar New Year so we’ll be learning more about it in class this week.

For 100 days of school, we celebrated with many fun activities during the school day. In my class, we did an activity that said “If I had $100, I would buy…” 

In science, we have been learning about rocks. We learned that there are 3 types of rocks.

-Igneous

-sedimentary

-metamorphic

We looked at different rocks in class and sorted them in groups of which type of rock we thought it belonged to. 

 We were lucky to have a group of people from “Keep Austin Beautiful” come in to teach us different ways we could help to keep the world to become a better place. The children learned about recycling, landfills, worms…Each week they came, we learned about something new. The second presentation, the kids got to play with worms. I’m not a worm person at all but the kids really got excited and loved holding them in their hands.

They really enjoyed the past 3 weeks of learning this. 

This past Wednesday, we got the chance to go to the fabulous science expo the 5^th graders threw for the school. It was very neat. The 5^th graders did a great job creating hands-on, educational experiments.

Our new pet gerbil!

It’s been one hectic week and why not end it with a Valentine’s party! Thank you for all who got me a sweet Valentine’s gift! Also, thank you for all my special helpers during the party! I hope the kids didn't eat too much candy over the weekend. :)