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The children worked very hard on their Reader's Theater plays. This week the children made their costumes, rehearsed with and without costumes, and did their performances on Thursday. I was impressed with their work! Crestwood's talent show was great! There was even some donkey kissing to celebrate the school reading over a million minutes!!! ![]() The children seemed to enjoy the Magic Treehouse Party! After we met our goal of reading ten books, the children were able to choose a theme for the party based on one of the books. They voted for Night of the Ninjas. As you will see in the Crestfest photos, the whole class also became series experts! Crestfest was another huge hit! It was a great way to end the year. :) Congratulations to all of our Crestfest Winners!!! Thank you for making sure all of the library books were returned! Our class earned a special end-of-the-year reading by Mrs. Velle!
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Since we had finished all of our social studies and science units, I let the children vote on what they wanted to learn about for the remainder of the year. They chose dogs! :) I planned our daily lessons around that theme. So far the children have learned about how dogs grow, safety around dogs, guide dogs, and different breeds and personalities of dogs. On the first day we made Origami puppies! We also discussed charts, watched Discovery Ed videos, read books, and used Venn diagrams. I was sad missing field day this year! Thankfully my amazing sub took pictures for me and the blog! During shared reading the children have been listening to various end of the year stories and working on their end of the year memory books. I just had to do one more kindness project with the children to end the year. I loved the idea of doing kindness rocks so I bought a bunch of rocks and we got started. :) A third grade class also joined our project! After painting the rocks with their personalized messages, I added pictures of them on the back. On Friday, we placed our rocks in "Monarch Meadows" (the area inside the bus loop). We surpassed our goal for the kindness tree! The children did 104 kind acts!
The children made jellyfish this week and wrote about them using describing words. While we did continue reading stories by Ezra Jack Keats this week we also did writing not associated with the literature. One day, the children wrote about their favorite parts of first grade. In social studies we worked on our final standard this week; the Fourth of July. We watched videos on the holiday and did several writing activities. Since we still have more time in the school year, I let the children vote on what they wanted to learn about in science and social studies. The winning vote was dogs! So I plan on teaching the children about dogs in general, the history of dogs, service dogs, and safety around dogs. Instead of doing our normal reading groups, I decided we would end the year doing reader's theater! Not only is it practicing reading, but also a great opportunity for the children to work on reading with expression. There will be three different plays differentiated by reading level. We began working on the scripts this week! Here is a hint for our final kindness project of the year...
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Mrs. StearnsWelcome! This is my fourth year at Crestwood and my 15th year of teaching. I love the families at Crestwood! I received my undergraduate degree from Longwood University and later received my Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in ESL. I am married and have a five-year-old daughter. I also have two dogs and one cat. When I am not teaching you will find me camping, reading, or going fun places with the family. Archives
June 2017
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