Saturday 6 for January 13

Hey all! We are linking up with Mrs. Wheeler again for Saturday 6.

We went back to school Monday. We had 17 days off for Winter Break. The kiddos had 18. It is an understatement to say we were all exhausted by Friday.

Penguins!
We started expository writing. Since penguins are always a first grade favorite, we started with them. This week we researched penguins. We started out reading a book together and adding the information we learned to a circle map. Later in the week the students worked with a partner to gather more information.

 Next week students will use information from the circle map to complete their writing organizer and begin their expository writing.

After about 18 weeks of school the kids are like a family.....

Families can get a little tired of each other's....

personality traits

behavior

words

quirks

Yes, lets go with quirks!

We tried Way To Go Wednesday and Thankful Thursday this week. At the end of the day students have a chance to give each other positive shout outs. 

Students are told each morning what to be on the lookout for. Wednesday they were told to look for something awesome another student did. We took a few minutes before dismissal to share our shout outs. 

We try to make sure each student only gets one shout out. We also try to make sure every student gets a shout out. They did a pretty good job for the first time! 

My favorite was, "X., way to go for not needing as many reminders to follow our expectations as you did yesterday!" 

Last week we complained about how COLD it was here in Florida. 

We did not handle it well. 

Our northern friends have no sympathy. 

We understand. (But we stand by our complaints.)

It warmed up here a little bit this week. Unfortunately the cold was replaced with rain. 

Not just a little rain. 

LOTS of rain!

Our campus floods when we get a lot of rain. The first grade hallway REALLY floods. (Notice the little stepping stones at the end on the left. They are moved into the hallway for students to walk on when it rains. They were placed there after the teachers had to carry each first grader across the "small pond" a few years ago.) 

The flooding was even worse by the time we left for the day. It was up past our ankles. Thank goodness most of the flooding happened after dismissal. 

Update: The rain has stopped but the cold came back. 

Due to the above mentioned weather we did a LOT of Go Noodles last week. We are so grateful for Go Noodles!

The Wild Card arrived this week!!! Only a few pages in, but it is safe to say it will be finished this weekend. If you want to find your creativity and increase student engagement it is a MUST read!  Click {here} to grab your copy!

We didn't want to keep the awesomeness to ourselves so we are hoping to host a Book Study with our colleagues. Check out our Donor's Choose Project {here}!

We have been working on organizing, recording, and interpreting data in math. What better way to end the week after returning from break than to use Skittles as our data! The kids absolutely LOVED it!

This is a FREEBIE in our store. Grab it {here}. It is an oldie, but a goodie so please ignore the un-cute font, etc. Maybe we need get around to updating it!

That is our Saturday 6. Make sure you check out Mrs. Wheeler's linky by clicking the picture below! Link up or just browse!