Little Bird Tales

Hooray!  First graders have finished our Little Bird Tales!  We have been working on a integrative project this fall where we have written stories all about ourselves.  We are using these stories to introduce ourselves to other first graders at Madison Elementary School here in Janesville.  We hope to keep in contact with our pen pals throughout the school year and hopefully meet up with them at the end of the year.  We began by writing a story about ourselves, including things we like to do and our favorite food and stories.  From there, Mrs. Janine (our Art teacher) worked with the children in Art class to illustrate their stories.  After that, the students worked in the computer lab with both Mrs. Janine and Ms. Block (our Innovative Learning Specialist) to navigate through the program Little Bird Tales.  They "drew" their illustrations in the program to create their pages.  Later, Ms. Block met with each child to record their voice reading their story.  It was great to collaborate with both Mrs. Janene and Ms. Block to create these awesome stories with the kids.  The kids loved seeing the end product and were very proud of their work.

(You can see these tales by clicking on the Little Bird Tales link at the top of this post)

ENJOY!!

Some other things we've been up to this week:

• reading, learning, and writing facts about pumpkins
• enjoying hearing books about Thanksgiving and writing about things we are thankful for
• hearing a Ready Freddy story Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble
• using clues in stories to predict what will happen next
• learning a new words activity "Pyramid Words" 
• adding and subtracting using our number line as a tool
• telling time to the half hour

Thank you to veterans who came for the celebration Monday morning and also thank you to grandparents that came to enjoy breakfast with your child Friday morning.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Halon