Mrs. Phillips 1st grade
Monday, October 5, 2009

congratulations!!!

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We have a winner! This drawing brings to life this year's theme, The Story of Twainland , and best depicts Mark Twain children in a fri...

new friends

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Meet Green Bean , Brownie , Oreo and Cheeto . Thank you for the contributions! I will send their usernames/passwords home soon so that y...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Booger Makes an A

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Last week I introduced a new game that can be played in class, Booger Makes an A . It is found on Webkinz in the arcade section. This game ...
Friday, October 2, 2009

Mixing Colors

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Today we mixed primary colors together to make secondary colors . It seemed like magic to them!

Henri Matisse

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Today we had our first official Art a la Carte lesson. Thank you to Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Dong for presenting such a fun and exciting lesson on...

reading

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Nice to have almost a full week of reading groups!

Peace Update

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Last week on International Day of Peace we participated in the Global Art Project Exchange , Let's All join Hands, by tracing our own ha...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

spanish

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Having fun while learning our color words in Spanish!

complementary colors

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Today we talked about complimentary colors (colors opposite one another on the color wheel) and made some beautiful artwork at the same tim...

breaking news...

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I'm sure you heard the news...we finally finished The Trumpet of the Swan and watched the movie yesterday. The kids loved it! Be sure t...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Just a squiggle...

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I see a snail, apple tree, octopus, apple, tornado, flower, clown, hermit crab and a sun! It's neat to see how differently they each sa...

Mondrian

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In art ancillary the children learned about Piet Mondrian . They explored straight lines, primary colors, rectangles, squares and grids.

color wheel

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Today we made our own color wheels to help us learn the difference between primary and secondary colors.

jars needed

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Is there a baby in your house that eats baby food from a jar? If so, we could use 2 more jars to complete our class set! We use them for pai...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Matthew's Dream

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Today we read Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni. After being inspired by Matthew's Dream, we listened to classical music and painted ou...
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watercolors!

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Today we broke out the watercolors for the first time! We will be using these often and it is important to get the rules covered so that we ...

balancing act

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During reading groups, one of the "jobs" assigned was to weigh various things from our classroom using our pennies as a unit of m...

reading groups

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We finally got back to our reading groups today! With LDC the past 2 weeks and TPRI testing looming over our shoulders...it was nice to ge...

Penny Grab

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Today we played a new game, Penny Grab . Basically, the game was a fun way to add pennies together and to reinforce the idea that one penny...

penny investigation

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Can you believe our official Everyday Math lesson today was on pennies? What luck...we have thousands of them at our disposal! We took a...
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I graduated from Southwest Texas State University with a B.S. in Education. I've taught both private and public school for 20 years. I was an active neighborhood parent at Mark Twain (now my daughter is starting middle school at Pin Oak!)...and am proud to teach there, too! I am excited about providing a challenging inquiry based experience as well as creating a caring, reflective and supportive classroom community.
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