Dinosaur Rocks Assembly

We had a great assembly yesterday (Thank you PTA!) about dinosaur bones and fossils. We got to see how large and small some dinosaurs were and even got to touch a meteorite!

Later on, we got to do an archeological dig for minerals, gems, fossils, and shark teeth.

Watch the video clips of our experience.

Our Trip to Bear Mountain

We had a great time and weather at the Bear Mountain Zoo. It was a great finish to the research we have been doing on woodland animals. We took notes, synthesized the information, and wrote a report that we typed in Keynote. Watch the video to see the woodland animals.

Our Trip to Bear Mountain

We had a great time and weather at the Bear Mountain Zoo. We saw a statue of Walt Whitman.

We also saw the twin bears Pal and Sade (Palisades) who are cinnamon bears. Reaba was there too (bear spelled backwards).

Then we went to the reptile house.

The class had an amazing time at the zoo. Thank you to all the parents that chaperoned and joined us on our trip.

Happy Mother's Day

We honored our mothers in the first grade annual Mother's Day play. Thank you Mrs. Tamburro for filming it (I was backstage). The video file is so big I am going to have to break into smaller segments to load on the web.

Earth Day 2010

We had a wonderful Earth Day and hope you did too.

We learned about how to reduce, reuse, recycle. Watch the movie to see us rocking out.

We also had a chance to do an Earth Day Reader's Theater play.

Celebrating LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day

We participated in LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day. Check out our video that tells the world, "I am a reader..."

Folktale Reader Theatre Play

As part of our work on developing fluency when reading we have been practicing with reader's theatre. The class performed The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Red Ridinghood, and Little Red Hen (in this case, rooster). When asked, the kids will say that they are reading with expression. Thank you kindergarten classes for being our audience.

Here are videos of the plays.