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Here is a time lapse video we watched.

Celebrating Dot Day

We started celebrating International Dot Day on Friday by reading The Dot by Peter Reynolds.

We loved how the main character, Vashti, didn't think she was an artist, but discovered that she really was! 

To celebrate we painted our own water color dots, and hung them outside our room.

To see your child's dot please click here & visit their student blog. You can even leave them a comment! We would absolutely love to have you share your thoughts about a dot.

Then, today we created a collaborative class dot! We love it!

Some students wrote a Dot Day book during stations ...

We also used augmented reality to make these paper dots come to life! Download the app we used here. 

We even counted dots during math.

And ... we sang the Dot song! 

Ask your student what their favorite part of Dot Day was! Mine was great class dot we made together! 

 Mrs. Zig

Feeding Slick

This is our pet Slick. We fed him live crickets.

He is a tiger salamander.

After he ate he dug himself back down.

We took a picture too!

Our Teacher Is A Monster!

On the first day of school we read My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown

We made a list of things we wanted our teachers to be, and drew teachers and monsters. Then later, we made this video together using iMovie on our iPads.




What do you want your teachers to be?

Come see our drawings and more on Tuesday night at Open House!

First Grade Class Schedule

We put up our schedule on the wall.

We noticed that stations, Social Studies / Science and math are the same amount of time. 

We used the same colors to make a pattern! 

Here it is! 

Mrs. Zig's Class

1st Grade Poets Create An Anthology!

We have been working the last few weeks to create an anthology of poems that represent our year!  Here are the published poems!  We are so proud!




Hover over the image, and click a nubbin to watch a video!

Herbs For A Change

Our Twitter story from today's herb money count ...