Lunch with Little Miss Muffet

This week we practiced the play Lunch with Little Miss Muffet, adopted from the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet". This play had many parts and some students were assigned multiple parts. Each student was assigned a role of either the Narrator, Little Miss Muffet, Ant, Curds and Whey, or the Spider. We had a great vocabulary discussion about a tuffet and curds and whey.  The final performance was on Friday. Each group did an excellent job reading with lots of expression and intonation to make their part more exciting. Ask your child about their role!

Elegant Luncheon

On Thursday we had an elegant luncheon during our regular lunch time. Students showed off their proper dining etiquette and were dressed for the occasion. Before eating lunch we enjoyed appetizers and music. We definitely channeled our inner Fancy Nancy and Dapper Dan! 

Hickory Dickory Dock; or, Go, Mouse, Go!

This week we practiced the play Hickory Dickory Dock; or, Go Mouse Go!, adopted from the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock". This play had many parts and some students were assigned multiple parts. Each student was assigned a role of either the Narrator, Fan 1, Fan 2, Fan 3, Mouse or the Clock. The final performance was on Friday. Each group did an excellent job reading with lots of expression to make their part more exciting. Ask your child about their role!

Reading Buddies

Every Friday we get together with Miss Miller's fourth grade class to read. The fourth graders pick out books to read to their first grade reading buddy. We take turns reading in first grade and fourth grade classrooms. This Friday everyone read in their pajamas to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday!

Author Visit

The author and illustrator Nancy Carlson came to visit our school on Wednesday. She was a very engaging speaker that shared what it was like to be an author and illustrator. She shared that many of her stories are based on stories from her childhood and about her family. She even showed students how to draw some characters from her stories. She encouraged students to always use their imagination and doodle as often as they can. 

Check out Nancy Carlson's webiste, she posts one doodle each day!

http://nancycarlson.com/

Mrs. Seeger is introducing Nancy Carlson

Nancy Carlson is talking about her illustrations. 

She said she gets inspiration for her illustrations from her family.

The book Think Big was inspired by her son. He wanted to be taller when he was in elementary school.

Nancy even showed us how to draw some of her characters!

Students added their ideas to make the scene of the picture.

Tropical Day

Yesterday we celebrated Tropical Day. The class sure is having fun celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday. Thanks to one of our students every one was able to wear a Hawaiian leis! 

Community Reader

In celebration of I Love to Read month and Dr. Seuss's birthday we had a couple of guest readers join us from the community. Two firefighters came to our classroom to read Dr. Seuss books. Students even had a chance to ask the firefighters some questions. Thanks again to our community readers!