Elf Application

Last week the students applied to become an Elf for Santa. We mailed their applications to Santa last week. Yesterday, I looked in my school mailbox and we received a package from Santa containing the student's elf identification badges. They were very excited to find out their Elf Name and what job Santa assigned to them! 

Double Number Addition & Rekenreks

Today we learned how to use the rekenrek to add two of the same numbers together (for example 8+8). The rekenreks are a great visual of making groups of ten and seeing the extra 'ones' left over. 

Winter Concert

On Tuesday, we had our Winter Concert. The kiddos did awesome. Two of their songs are below! Please check them out!

 

Family Trees

We have been learning a lot about families. Today, we wrapped up our unit by making our own family trees. The students have learned about the different people that can make up a family (mother, father, step-mother, step-father, brothers, sisters, step-siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins). They also learned about the different types of families such as Nuclear Families, Single-Parent Families, Adoptive Families, Foster Families, and Blended Families. The students enjoyed putting their family members on their very own family tree.

Pajama Day

The First Grade students at Hemlock Creek participated in the 7th Annual Scholastic Pajama Drive. The students collected 83 pairs of pajamas; way to go First Graders! We celebrated by having a Pajama Day!

I also took a picture of our own class! You will also notice that our class was awarded the traveling trophy for the week. The students have been demonstrating appropriate dress for the weather and appropriate behavior on the playground. 

Hour of Code

Today, we had our Library Media Specialist, Mrs. Gossen, come in and teach us about coding on the iPads. Mrs. Gossen taught us what coding is and how to use three different coding apps on the ipad. The students had the option to choose which app they wanted to play. Below are the apps that the students chose from:

Kodable - The students used code to tell the character, "fuzz ball," to collect the coins on the screen.

Scratch Jr. - The students used code to make the cat go different places based on the background they chose.

 

Tynker - The students used code to get the character to eat the candy. 

We had a lot of fun and look forward to having Mrs. Gossen come and teach us more about the different types of technology that we have available at Hemlock Creek!

Scratch Jr. 

Scratch Jr. 

Kodable

Kodable

Tynker