The Day of the Book

Our April PLUSS day was such a wonderful day!  We enjoyed "The Day of the Book" a vision of our Middle School Librarian, Mrs. Montrie.  As some of you in our community know, Mrs. Montrie is courageously fighting cancer and hasn't been in school for many months.  Mr. Scott and Mrs. Rutstein along with others were determined to make her vision a reality and that's just what they did!

On Monday, first graders made their selections for The Day of the Book from over 80 options.  All students in 1A were encouraged to select one session with our visiting Caldecott winning illustrator, Pamela Zagarenski.  This left two sessions for them to choose what they'd like to learn about.  Lower school and Middle School students and faculty members lead sessions ranging from book creation, cartooning, making bookworms, and playing games with a book theme.

Many of our 1A students blogged about their day on their personal blogs which you can access here:

http://kidblog.org/MissMunteansFriendsinFirst/

Take a peek at who has commented on the posts where her session was highlighted!  SO COOL!!

Our day wrapped up with an all LS and MS school DEAR  (Drop Everything And Read) time on the field and a LS Smackdown- a period of reflection.  

Hopefully your child came home with many positive things to say about this day as I think it was a day they really enjoyed and will remember for years to come.  

Because we were all spread out, I wasn't able to get too many photos, but managed to get a few here and there:

Illustrating with Pamela Zagarenski!

First graders, what was the highlight of your day?  Post a comment with all of us to share. 

Taking Off on Another Adventure

Just after returning from Spring Break, first grade gathered their passports and their luggage and took off to El Salvador!  Here's a few pictures from our journey.

Captain Knott, greeted us from the cockpit.

He gave us the rundown of our flight.

Our journey of approximately 1,942 miles would take an estimated 4 hours!

Captain Knott's brother, Mr. Scott, his son, Robby, and Senor Pena-Welch, a native of El Salvador,  made us a tasty in- flight snack for our long flight....... Pupusas!  Most of us really enjoyed this treat from El Salvador!

First graders what would you like to learn about El Salvador? Post a comment to share with all of us.

Hmmm...... It's a Mystery!

Our little blog has been feeling neglected!  Sorry!  It's been a busy few weeks with Spring Break and getting back into the groove of things after break.

On the Friday before Spring Break, we enjoyed a visit from yet another Mystery Reader............The clues we were given were:
1.  I am a Mommy.
2.  I have dark long hair.
3.  I love to read.
4.  I have 3 children at Friends School.
5.  I love music especially Bob Marley (so does Miss Muntean!).

Hmmmmm......... Who could this be?  This Mystery was solved by a few in our class and Hannah knew for sure it could only be her Mom, Mrs. D!

Mrs. D read several books to us including The Leprechaun's Gold, Crazy Hair, and Hooray for Reading Day!

It was another fantastic Mystery Reader visit!  Thank you, Mrs. D!

Chicks & SALSA!

This week, my language arts class is reading the book Chicks & Salsa by Aaron Reynolds.  

What would a book about salsa be without some actual salsa?  We all agreed that salsa was just what we needed so we made some today!

First we had to chop all of our ingredients:  tomatoes, onion, and cilantro

Next we added a few other ingredients: salt, garlic, red wine vinegar, and a little sugar and mixed it all together!

After it was all mixed, it was time for us to grab some chips and enjoy our salsa!

Everyone tried it and a few friends even wanted seconds and thirds! 

Friends in my LA class, what was your favorite part of making our salsa today?  Did you enjoy it? Post a comment to share with all of us...... or better yet, create your own post about making salsa on YOUR blog! 

Families, you can get to our LA blogs here or via the link under the Language Arts tab at the top:

http://kidblog.org/MissMunteansFriendsinFirst/

Mexican Clothing

Senora Pena-Welch brought in some authentic Mexican attire for our first graders to try on.  Students in 1A enjoyed both the dress and serape!

Thank you, Senora for letting us borrow these!