Farm Community Characteristics Study

Farm Communities . . .

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Progressive Wall . . .City Art Project

Hi everyone! We have had so much fun this week learning about different types of communities and neighborhoods. As I posted last week, we made a cute neighborhood out of paper sacks. Well, yesterday we made a city by making skyscrapers out of construction paper. This is working nicely for our display and our discussion of "city" and "suburb". Here is a picture of our progressive wall . . .

Suburb Characteristics Study

Suburbs . . .

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City Characteristics Study

Here is another book in this series we have been reading . . .

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I forgot to mention that these books have great photos and are great for introducing non-fiction text features.
This is to go with it . . .

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Walking Field Trip-Neighborhoods

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great Tuesday. We had a fun day today. All of the first graders went on a walking field trip around our school neighborhood. Camille took photos with her iPhone ahead of time, and then we made a scavenger hunt with photos of establishments in the area. Here are a few fun pics I took on our way . . and a copy of our scavenger hunt paper because I don't think I explained it very well.

Small Town Characteristics Study

Happy Labor Day! Hope you have had a great day. Who starts school tomorrow? We started on August 16th, but I think there are still some places where school starts after Labor Day . . .I mentioned last week that we have been learning about different types of communities and neighborhoods. We will be reading this book this week . . .

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 I made this to go with it, and will be sharing more this week to go with other books in this series . . .

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Neighborhood Project, Fun New Book

Hey everyone! Have you started school yet? We had our 10th school day today and it is amazing how far we have already come with rules and procedures. We have been learning about neighborhoods. I saw a cute idea on Pinterest and decided we would do it as well. The kids really enjoyed it and they turned out so cute. We put them in the hall for others to enjoy . . .

I also wanted to share a book with you that I recently found. It is for me, not for school. The first time I saw it we were in a shop at Pier 39 in San Francisco this summer. It was one of those, "Should I buy it or not?" moments. The type when you are purchasing something else, you are toward the end of vacation and think you shouldn't spend any more money . . .well, I didn't buy it . . .wished I did. . .went home and ordered it from Amazon anyway! Have you ever done that? Here is the book:

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There is also a darling calendar (which I DID buy on vacation)

Have a good evening . . .

Franklin's Neighborhood and {Adam-12}

Hi everyone. It is Sunday evening. Thankfully I already have my clothes ironed for tomorrow! That is always a bonus in the morning.

 I also worked on doing some organizing in my craft room, while watching Netflix. I love watching shows that I remember watching in my youth. Currently, I am going through an "Adam-12" kick. Does anyone else remember this show? I had to laugh because as a child I remember trying to figure out what they were saying on the police radio when Reed and Malloy got a call. I always thought it sounded like "Seated Man" and I never could really understood that. Now when I watch I know it is saying "See the Man". . .LOL 

In first grade tomorrow we are reading a book called "Franklin's Neighborhood". I have a lot of Franklin books but had not heard of this one . . .we realized it is one of the older Franklin books and in fact it is only available used or through second party sellers. Anyway, it follows Franklin as he works on a project in which he tries to decide the best thing about his neighborhood. . .

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After we read the story, I am going to have my class do this:

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Have a great Sunday evening and fun Monday!