Mrs. Hancock's First Grade Class

FIELD DAY

2008-05-21T11:07:00.000-07:00

Today we had field day for the school. One of our favorite

field day competitions was the tug-of-war!

We also did tennis ball throw, baskeball dribble,

40 yard race, jump rope, soccer dribble and

baskeball shoot!

Here we are being good sports after the tug of war!

Louie in the Spring!

2008-05-10T17:29:00.000-07:00

Spring is here and Louie's feeling good!
He was running in the pasture
amongst the dandelions and showing
off for me. He seemed to be saying
"hey, look at what I can do!"

He's Got Heart!!!!

2008-05-06T08:48:00.000-07:00

Louie has 2 heart shaped patterns on his

left side. Can you find them? He has a

Mickey Mouse pattern on his right side, too!

My Horse Louie

2008-05-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

Of course you knew this was coming!
The students have all seen hundreds (seems like!)
pictures of my horse, Louie. Now that his

winter coat is gone, the pictures look much

better. I will be posting more as soon as I

can take some good shots of him in the pasture!

What do we do at recess?

2008-05-06T08:36:00.000-07:00

Now that the snow is gone, what do we do at recess?

Lots of fun things! We have fun on the playground,

play ball, draw on the blacktop, and talk with friends.

Here the girls are making statue shadows and then

tracing them with chalk!

recycle, reuse, give us your shoes!

2008-04-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

Thanks for sending in those shoes! We sure

collected a lot of them! Goodbye shoes, hello

Nike Factory in Oregon and then Yahoo to

a new court!

Earth Day Everyday! Projects

2008-04-24T10:24:00.000-07:00

Our school collected over 280 pairs of athletic shoes!
These shoes will be sent to the Nike Factory in
Oregon. There, they will be ground up into a pieces
and formulated with a glue to make playing courts.
It takes over 2500 pairs to make one basketball
court. Nike provides playing courts all over the world,
especially in areas of need.

End of the Year Countdown!

2008-04-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

A is for Armadillo! (over 10 species)
B is for Birds. (over 20,000 species!)
C is for Canada (I talked about where I lived)
D is for Dragonfly. (over 500 species)
E is for Estimation day
F is for Freedom Day (the White House has 32 bathrooms!)
G is for Green Day (we wore green, talked about green things)
H is for, what else, but HORSE day. I brought in my tack, grooming stuff, etc.
I is for Illinois. We talked about our state bird, fossil, plant, etc.
J is for Joke Day and Job Day. We had too many "jobs" and didn't have
time for the jokes!

Visit to the Planetarium

2008-04-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

This is the star machine.
It made a starry night appear
on the dome. We saw many
constellations and the Milky
Way.

Thursday, April 10th, we went to the
district's planetarium. We saw a great
star show on the ceiling of the dome!

2008-03-20T11:19:00.000-07:00

First Day of Spring?
Sure doesn't look like it
to us! It was 35 degrees
F. today when we took
this picture. We are
supposed to get from 6-10 inches
of snow tonight!!!
Yikes! Bring on the
warm weather.

Computer Lab

2008-03-19T09:18:00.000-07:00

In computer lab we follow along on the big screen projector
with Mrs. Berry or Mrs. Hancock.
We are learning to use
Microsoft Word and Microsoft
Publisher!

2008-03-18T12:45:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of our "Young Authors". Each child was required to research (with their family) an animal, write a non-fiction book,and illustrate it themselves. The children even typed their own text for the book using Microsoft Word in computer lab!