Building pictures with plane shapes

The student have been exploring shapes and worked with a partner to make a picture. Using the same 8 shapes each group came up with very different pictures. Their creativity led to endless designs!

Shapes that stack, roll and slide

The students were hard at work today and yesterday exploring solid shapes and experimenting to see which shapes could stack, roll and/or slide. Great group work!!

Gingerbread Houses

Today, the first grade teachers surprised the students with gingerbread house decorating! The students had worked very hard in art designing and creating a non-edible gingerbread house so this was a nice treat as well as a different way to be creative.

Many thanks to the PTA for their generous support of this project!!

With a blank slate, no two houses came out alike.

The finished products look great!  (The hands were a bit messy though...)

My apologies for the few students whose pictures were left out--I forgot one friend and a few were photo bombed by other first graders who I am not positive about their photo releases. :)

I hope the creations made it home safely. Have a safe and happy holiday and restful vacation!!! See you next year.....

Winter Wonderland

Click HERE to see the class sing Winter Wonderland. Along with two other first grade classes, this was performed at an assembly for the whole school. Due to space limitations, parents couldn't attend and the class thought you would like to hear their song at home. They are wearing snowflake headbands made by Mrs. White, while singing the song they practiced with Ms. Landsman. 


Winter Wonderland

Shape Art

Yesterday we used out knowledge of plane shapes to create a snowman. Circles for the body, a triangle carrot nose, and a square and rectangle combined to make the hat. After that, the students gave each snowman their own flair.