Hello Friends,

Happy Thursday! Yesterday was Earth Day, did you do anything to celebrate?! We took a walk in our neighborhood and gathered any trash we saw along the way. Check out this video about Earth day to learn more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1YnhCxaso

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Wednesday! I’m really looking forward to our google meets today and tomorrow, I just love seeing all your faces!! Today, you can bring a favorite book to share with your friends and tell us your opinion about it. You might tell what you like about the characters or illustrations or what makes it a great story (does it teach a lesson, was it funny, etc.)! See you all soon J

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone has a great start to the week! Have you had a chance to look at the first grade learning calendar for this week yet?! This week you will learn about adding double digit numbers, you will listen to some great books on Bookflix and discuss the characters, and you can do some choice writing from the spring writing journal or the April writing menu. I’d love to see some of your work this week, so don’t forget to send me some picture of work you do!! I wanted to share one of the pieces of writing I did from the April writing menu, you can check it out here!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lJ62_5YCKS0ku-JImYQJi5xYFX2zZrfq/view?usp=sharing

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! This weekend my family and I went hiking at some local trails near our house. We saw lots of animals and threw rocks in the stream, Colton and Clara especially loved that!! What did you do this weekend?

    

Big Hugs,

Hello Friends,

Happy Friday! We made it through another week! I miss you all so very much, but LOVED seeing you all on our google meets this week and hearing your awesome jokes for joke week!! I can’t wait to see you all next week, and continue our time together! Next week's share is bring a favorite book and share your opinions about it.... I can't wait to hear about the books you love!

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Thursday! I finished my opinion book and wanted to share it with you all! How are you doing on your books?! If you had a chance to write an opinion book this week, I’d love to read it, so if you can share it with me that would be great! You can check mine out here…. Let me know what you think!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KCO7bCZ7HRBKUbxFC7tgHhfKvyOMCAx4/view?usp=sharing

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hi!! Have you checked out the rainbow rocks hunt at River Road Park? If not, give it a try sometime. People paint rocks and bring them to hide at the park, you then search for them, kind of like an easter egg hunt!! What a neat idea! Here's Chase getting some rocks ready.....

Big Hugs,
Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Wednesday! I’ve had a busy week working on my opinion writing book and listening to many of you reading on Raz-Kids. I have loved hearing some of you reading books on Raz-Kids and have gotten to write you comments on your reading AND award you bonus points of your account!! Hope everyone has a great “hump day” (that’s what they call Wednesday! LOL)

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone has a great start to the week! Have you had a chance to look at the first grade learning calendar yet?! This week you will learn about opinion writing, and begin writing an opinion book! You can choose something you really like and tell others why you think it is great! I am writing mine about Saratoga State Park because I love going there! I can’t wait to share it with you at the end of the week once I finish it!! Here’s a picture of Colton and I at one of at one of the springs at the park!

  

 

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, we had dinner on our porch last night for the first time this spring….it was great! We grilled hot dogs and hamburgers and ate some of our Easter treats for dessert!  We also went to Saratoga State Park on Saturday and walked around the golf course, one of Mr. Schwan’s favorite places!! I thought you might like to see Colton and Clara’s Easter pictures…….

     

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Happy Friday!! I hope everyone had a great week and is getting ready for a great weekend! This weekend my family and I are hoping to go to Thatchers Park for some hiking if the weather is nice enough, what are you doing this weekend? Follow this link for directions to a fun easter sight word game!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WBe4AggzYYXg_vv5N3BJQgwLBjv3dcK4hFppTsiV4tc/edit?usp=sharing

Big Hugs,
Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,

Today during our class chats, Aria shared a neat butterfly project she did that came from the Mystery Doug site. Here is the link if you'd like to try it!

https://mysterydoug.com/mysteries/butterflies

Big Hugs,

Hello Friends,
Want a game idea for this rainy day?! Check out the neat money game Chase and his brother played. Each spot in the muffin tin had a piece of tape with an amount of money to make, then they had to use "loose change" to make that amount of money! What a fun way to practice with money!

Hello First Graders,

Happy Wednesday! I’ve been doing some extra reading during this time away from school, making sure to keep my reading strategies sharp! Have you been enjoying some good books lately?! For today’s activity follow these steps to continue that learning:

1)   Follow this link to a website where celebrities are reading stories!  https://www.storylineonline.net/. 

2)  When you are done complete one of the reader response. sheets for fiction books,

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1IFWvkk_Ya1a5r79Hz1bwCmS9gSCOKDnc​ .  

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Friends,
I just LOVE getting your emails and seeing all the things you are doing at home!! Check out Brynlee hard at work on some reading activities and making an awesome family tree!! Great job Brynlee!

Big Hugs,

Hello First Graders,

Happy Tuesday! I’ve been showing Colton some of the neat things on Pebblego, he especially loves the dinosaur books! In science, we were learning about space systems.  For today’s activity follow these steps to continue that learning:

1-     log in pebblego.com 

2-    The username and password are rosendale

3-    Go to “science”, then “earth and space sciences”

4-    Read some books in this section, or reads them all!!

5-    CHALLENGE- write some facts you learned from the book(s)- you can write them on index cards, stick it notes, in a notebook, whatever!

6-    SUPER CHALLENGE- use what you’ve learned (today and at school) to write your own all about book about space systems!

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello First Graders,

Happy Monday! This weekend my family and I went to the bike path near our house and Colton and Clara practiced riding their balance bikes! We had a great time getting outside and enjoying some sunshine! For today’s activity follow these steps:

1-  log in to ixl.  I see that some of you have already been working on Math in ixl! 

2- When you are in ixl please do the Data and Graphing section (section O).  If you have trouble getting in or need usernames I can help.  The password is shark for everyone. 

3- CHALLENGE- In ixl, there are also activities for Language Arts practice, give one a try!

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

 Hello First Graders,

Happy Fun Friday!! I'm excited for the weekend and hoping to take a drive to our camp in Lake George and run around on the beach! What are you going to do?!Check out the message from Mrs. Tabakman below with a really fun idea for today's activity!

The San Diego Zoo is a VERY cool zoo in California, and as you might know, that is VERY far from us right now. The cool thing is that YOU can VISIT the zoo from your house. WOW RIGHT? I added a link to the live cameras at the zoo, and you can watch the animals that live there ...ANYTIME you want! https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams​

You can see all types of animals....Which one is your favorite?  

Hugs

Mrs. Tabakman

Have a great weekend,

Hello Friends!

Want a neat idea for something really cool to do outside?! Chase and his family made an obstacle course yesterday, what an awesome idea!!!

Hello First Graders,

 Dear First Graders,

Happy Thursday! In math, we’ve been learning about how to organize and interpret data using graphs. We learned how to read graphs AND how to make our own graphs! Follow the steps below for today’s activity……

1.             Look at the chart that provides information about the pets my family own (my whole extended family that is!)

                                     Pets Mrs. Schwan’s Family Have

Dogs 7	Cats 4	Hamsters 2
Fish 2	Ferrets 1

2.             Use the graph paper to create a picture graph showing the information from the chart (or make your own on plain paper)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxh8P2fDE6nKt0X2WsXLDKQ1669qgG9I/view?usp=sharing

3.             Challenge- write questions to go with the graph (HINT: think about things like “the most/least”, how many more/less”, “how many in all”

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan

Hello Freinds,

We had some of our small group chats this morning and it was so great to see some of you!! We got to chat about things we've been doing and share ideas of fun creative ways to stay busy! Check out what some of your classmates have been doing...

Chase has been making Perler Bead Patterns and Counting and sorting Jellybeans, yum!!

Julia has been learning all about Geodes and even found some outside to crack open and add to her collection! 

Hello First Graders,

Happy Wednesday! Do you know what today is?! Follow this link to find out!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmMMNyDbqcQ

For today’s activity, try to come up with a funny (but appropriate) prank to pull on someone you live with!! For ideas, you can follow this link (parents, there’s some ideas for you too!)

https://www.today.com/parents/joke-s-you-kid-11-family-friendly-april-fools-pranks-t83276

Challenge- Write about what prank you puled and how it went!

Big Hugs,

Mrs. Schwan