SciShow Seed to Plant Video

Fun Money Videos

Reading Street Read-Aloud Videos

I’m With You, Even Though We’re Apart ❤️

While we may be miles apart, we’re always together in our hearts! 💕

End of School Year Video

A Read-Aloud of One of My Favorite Books!

Packing up all of your crayons to send home reminded me of this book. It’s one of my favorites, so I hope you enjoy!

Origami Dolphin Pictures

 What an amazing dolphin, AJ! Isn’t it incredible what you can create with a piece of paper?!

First Grade Drawings

These drawings are amazing, Junior! Love your Olaf! ☃️

Directed Drawing - Olaf!

This directed drawing is a little more challenging. Have fun drawing my favorite character from Frozen: Olaf!!

Fun Friday Activities

Let’s get moving on this Fun Friday! Even though it’s hot outside, we can stay cool with these fun activities. Move along with the characters from Frozen in a fun freeze dance and get your Brrrrr on with the guys from Koo Koo Kanga Roo!

More Directed Drawings

Those are AWESOME drawings, Tyler! I love that you drew yourself riding your dinosaur.  You are one brave kid! 🤠

First Grade Directed Drawings

Dynamite Dinosaurs, Gabrielle and AJ! They look delightful!

Love your adorable bottlenose dolphin, Gabrielle! Great drawing and coloring!

SciShow Brain Freeze video

Cool Facts about Ice Cream video

Ice Cream Directed Drawing

It’s almost officially Summer! One of my favorite warm weather treats is ice cream. Get out your art supplies and draw a cute ice cream cone. Check out the other videos about ice cream on the blog and go to Epic to read about how ice cream is made. What’s your favorite flavor?

Let’s Ride a Disney Roller Coaster!

The Science of Roller Coasters

Today, we’re learning about roller coasters and the science that helps make these rides so fun. Watch the SciShow video, then hop on a Disney “virtual” roller coaster and hold on tight! You can also check out the Amazing Structures: Roller Coasters book on Epic to learn more.

Happy Birthday, Tyler! 🎂

Dolphin craft and drawing

Amazing Animals video

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/amazing-animals/#/202852931601

Let’s learn about dolphins! Please check out the Amazing Animals video about the Bottlenose Dolphin on National Geographic Kids and then make an origami dolphin or draw one (or both!). You can also check out other Amazing Animals videos on the site and books and videos about dolphins on Epic. Have fun! 😀

Dinosaur Books and Videos on Epic

Since you’re drawing a dinosaur today, I thought it would be fun to learn more about them. Check out the videos and books about dinosaurs that I assigned on Epic. If you want to see or read more, type Dinosaurs in the search box. They have so many to choose from!

Directed Drawing Video

Get out your markers and crayons! Art for Kids Hub on YouTube has awesome directed drawing activities. This is one of their more simple drawing with shapes activities, but they have videos for just about any animal or object your child is interested in. Check out their channel if you enjoy this.

Weekly Assignments

Weekly Assignments - week of 5/18 - 5/21

Hi First Grade Families! It’s our last “official” week of school. Since all the graded activities are over, this week is going to be about having fun! I’ll be posting daily videos and activities that I hope you all will enjoy. Later this week there will also be a list of family field day activities that you can do anytime you want. Please check the blog daily to see what’s been posted. 😃

First Grade Pictures

Fireflies are awesome, Charlie! That is an incredible drawing of one!

Charlie also found some toads! Toads and fireflies mean Summer is almost here!

Spreading Sunshine pictures

Great ways to spread kindness, Deirdre and Charlie! Love your drawings and ideas!

Go Noodle Video!

Fun Friday video

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/


Check out the fun party animal videos and dance along!

Awesome Journal Writing

I love that Gabrielle wrote about her LEAST favorite bug! That is one scary-looking fly!!

Junior wrote about grasshoppers. I love grasshoppers, too!

Kylie and AJ wrote about their favorite animals. I once had a Guinea pig named Phil, so I love them, too! AJ had a cat named Dojo that liked to play. Great picture, AJ!

More Sunshine!! 🔆

Taking care of our pets is a great way to spread sunshine, Gabrielle!

Jesus Feeds the 5,000 Video

Jesus Growing Up Video

Spreading Sunshine

Love the picture you drew and your beautiful sunshine, Lily!

Saying Grace Video

Sign of the Cross Video

Sight Words

Weekly Assignments

Weekly Assignments - Week of 5/11 - 5/15

Please take time this week to have your child finish and submit any unfinished papers and online assignments. The activities that I am listing for this week are for enrichment and review.

Make sure you check out the Art, Music, and Computer blogs for this week’s assignments for Specials. They are listed on the St. Ann website.

Day 1

Reading: Epic - National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant
Writing/Grammar: Journal writing - Write about your favorite animal. Tell me the name of the animal (My favorite animal is _____.) Tell me what it looks like (It is ____ and has ___ on its body). Tell me what it likes to eat or do (It eats ______ OR It likes to ______). Illustrate your writing.
Spelling: Practice reading sight words (List 1)
Math: Epic - Telling Time song Video
Science/Social Studies: Scholastic Learn at Home - Week 4, Day 20 - Social Studies: Firefighters
Religion: Sign of the Cross Video

Day 2

Reading: Epic - Seeds, Bees, and Pollen
Writing/Grammar: Epic - Contractions video
Spelling: Practice reading sight words (List 2)
Math: Practice counting to 100.
Science/Social Studies: Mystery Science - How Do Flowers Bloom in the Spring?
Religion: Saying Grace Video

Day 3

Reading: Epic - The Tiny Seed (audio book)
Writing/Grammar: Journal writing - Write about Your favorite bug (If you don’t like bugs, tell me which is your LEAST favorite!) Tell me what it looks like, where it lives, and why you like it or don’t like it. Draw a picture of the bug.
Spelling: Practice reading sight words (List 3)
Math: Practice counting to 120.
Science/Social Studies: Mystery Science - How Do Bees Make Honey?
Religion: Jesus Growing Up Video

Day 4

Reading: Epic - Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
Writing/Grammar: Epic - The Wide Open World of Adjectives video
Spelling: Practice reading sight words (List 4)
Math: Practice counting by 10s to 120.
Science/Social Studies: Epic - The Baby Bumble Bee Song (Scratch Garden video) and SciShow: Busy Bees
Religion: Jesus Feeds the 5,000 video

Day 5

Fun Friday!!! Watch the videos and dance with Go Noodle!!

Mystery Science Video - How do Bees Make Honey?

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/honey-bees?code=c56e855ebdf30cfabc2e8beebaaac9fc

Mystery Science - How Do Flowers Bloom in the Spring?

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/spring-flowers#

Spreading Sunshine Pictures

Being nice to everyone is a great way to spread sunshine, Tyler!

More Sunshine!!

Thanks, Jerome! Helping clean is a great way to spread sunshine!! 🔆

Spreading Sunshine!

Thank you, AJ and Gabby, for helping spread kindness in our world! ❤️

More bird nest pictures

Love your sweet birds and eggs, Deirdre and Caroline!

Tyler found a REAL bird nest with eggs on his patio!

Spreading Sunshine Assignment

Good Morning First Graders! It’s a beautiful, sunny day. Sometimes, the word sunshine can mean the warm, bright light we see that comes from the sun, and sometimes, the word sunshine can mean happiness or kindness. Today, we’re going to create a craft that shows how we can spread sunshine or kindness. 

I started by thinking of ways I can show kindness to the people I live with. My mom has flowers in her yard, so I thought I could show her love and kindness by helping water her flowers. I wrote a sentence about that and then drew a picture. 

I colored and cut out the sun and then the stripes that I glued to the back of the sun. I decided to color my stripes like a rainbow, but you can use any colors you want! Please hang this in a window in your home, along with the thank you coloring pages I sent. Maybe it will bring some “sunshine” to everyone who sees them!

Please check out the video on the blog about kindness. I hope you get outside today and get some REAL sunshine! 🔆 Remember, the best gift you can give anyone is kindness!

Spreading Sunshine/Kindness Video

Our Father Prayer

More Awesome Pictures

Love your bird nests, Kylie, AJ, and Tekla!!

Look! Gabby’s “eggs” hatched!!

Beautiful Bird Nests Pictures

More beautiful bird nests! Thanks for sharing Caleb, Lily, Gabrielle, and Gabby!

Happy Birthday, Ryder!!