Poetry Journal by Mrs. Childress

Hi Class,
I thought you would enjoy reading some of this poems over the summer. You will know a few of them. We added them to our writing journal in first grade! Remember to read this summer!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Settle
**** There are pages missing to this journal and they can be found HERE.

To My Class

Hi Class,
I hope you are enjoying your summer.  I hope you are not too hot.  I hope you are getting to play in water and splash, splash, splash!  I hope you are riding your bike, playing with your friends, jumping rope, singing songs, and having a BLAST!

I also hope you are keeping up with your summer reading goal you set for yourself.  I know everyone was going to read everyday.  Are you?  Leave me a comment below so I know how you are doing!

I'll write again later!

Here is a link to a fun site to play on after leaving me a comment CLICK HERE.

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Settle

Our Extraordinary Fun Day

Fun Day was really cool, exciting and awesome this year.  We went around  outside our school and did play stations.  We raced through an inflatable bouncy house.  We bounced and jumped down the slide in it.  The inflatable bouncy was spectacular.

We liked playing on the playground.  We had fun playing basketball.  We had fun stacking cups.  We had fun having scooter races. 

Then we got to have a break and got some cold water.  It was refreshing because it was so hot we thought we were going to pass out. After our break we started playing again. 

The beanbag toss was fun.  We drew pictures with chalk on the blacktop.  We blew bubbles and made more bubbles by waving bubblesticks.

We played with a parachute.  We put balls on the parachute and they popped like popcorn.  Some of the balls hit people in the head including D.  It didn't hurt though.

We played with swimming noodles.  It was crazy.We had a sword fight with the noodles. We pretended we were pirates.  We pretended they were telescopes.  We pretended they were snakes.  We used them like talking phones.  We talked through the holes.  We pretended to ride them like horses.  We made bows with them.  We played tag with them. 

We liked our extraordinary Fun Day!!!  We can't wait until 2nd grade so we can do it again!

We NEED MORE Blog Hits Please!

We are excited.  We want to tell you about how many blog hits we have gotten on our blog.  We have 898 hits from the people coming to our blog.  We want to get up to a 1000 hits now before the end of the school year.  We have people from around the world visiting us.  We feel really happy that so many people were on our blog reading it and helping us.  Writing on our blog is fun and exciting!!!

We hope you like our blog.  We worked very hard on it.  It has stories, reports and videos. 

Please come back and visit our class blog again.  We love having you visit us!

Our Field Trip

View from Quincy Hill Park Scavenger Hunt

Fort Boreman Park Scavenger Hunt

Ward's Fruit, Vegetables and Flower Market

One Room Schoolhouse

We loved our field trip very much.  Our field trip was cool.  We went on two scavenger hunts. We went to Quincy Hill Park and Fort Boreman Park.   Then, we got to go to the fruit, vegetable and flower market.   Next, we went to the mall and ate at Burger King.  We went to a one room schoolhouse after that in Mineral Wells.  There  was a fake teacher at the school. The pretend teacher told S to throw a marble on the floor.  S got in pretend trouble for that.  She pretended that J had  been picking on someone and she pulled his ear to get him up front in the classroom.  S and J had to sit in the dunce chair for getting into pretend trouble. She made K put her nose on a dot on the board because K pretended to pass a note.   She said K was at the board pretending to practice kissing a boy. One of the teachers got her bottom tapped in a pretend spanking. She called called some of the boys "master". They had pretend old wooden guns to play with at recess there. We played cool games, too. There were stilts to walk with during recess. We had ice pops at the end.  It was fun.   The field trip was awesome.

Tara the Tiger-Group Writing Activity

Tara is a tiger. She did not open her eyes for nine day. She did not like her first bath. She had a checkup at the vet's office. The lights there were very scary.

Mary is the baby zoo trainer. She takes the tiger home at night. Tara drinks warm milk. As Tara gets older she goes with a new trainer, Lynn. Lynne teaches Tara what she can and can not do when she gets older.

Tara joins the grownup tigers when she is 9 months old. Tara is old enough to eat raw meat. She is big and strong. Tara is big enough to go outdoors. She naps under leafy, shady trees and plays in the water.

Bear Cub Report

When a bear is born its eyes are closed.  They drink milk when they are first born.  They don't have to learn how to drink, they just know how. Bear cubs will eat berries and fish. When they get older they get stronger.