What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

What do you want to be when you grow up? Every day we will be adding the students digital presentations to our website. Hope you enjoy reading what they learned and created  Just follow the link below!

http://www.rhinelander.k12.wi.us/faculty/LieckJoE/reading.cfm

Community Helper Research Begins

Three Inquiry Questions

The students use their close reading strategies as they dig deep into their research of their chosen Community Helper.

Have Fun Reviewing Place Value with these Songs and Activities

Fact Dash - Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/assets/FactDash.html

98 Pink Elephants - Understand the Tens and Ones Place

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/ebook_assets/MH_Math_songs/gm/grade1/index.html?songID=math_song_98_pink_elephants

Grouping by Tens - Build Understanding of Place Value

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/ebook_assets/MH_Math_songs/gm/grade1/index.html?songID=math_song_grouping_by_10

Vocabulary Review for Chapter 5

http://www.mhschool.com/mmh_games/content/na2013_games/g1/c5/index.html

Brrr It Is So Cold Outside

Looking for a good story?  Read about Emma in the story Snow Day.  There are activities to go with it too :)

https://docs.google.com/a/rhinelander.k12.wi.us/file/d/0B_GbzxUjeMGGSHNsUU9vU25jNlU/edit

Also don't forget about the wonderful online resources on our Distirct Tehnology page!

http://www.rhinelander.k12.wi.us/k2resources.cfm

Why I Do What I Do?

Today as parents gathered into the classroom to listen to their child or grandchild perform a part in our Reader's Theater with excited faces it reminded me that this is why I do what I do.  It is because I want children to succeed.  I want families to be part of their child's education.  I want them to feel like they can come into the classroom anytime, call me, message me, etc ...
Thank you!
As the wind chill kept us from going outside AGAIN today, I went to the storage closet and brought in some toys from Kindergarten.  The children were ecstatic! Dinosaurs were roaming, the child care center was busy with new babies and log homes were being built.  As I looked at these little ones, I reflected on how much they do!  THEY ARE SIMPLY AND HONESTLY AWESOME!
In our busy lives we sometimes forget to reflect, to thank someone, to just step back & watch.
Thank you ~ to the families, past and present, who have made me who I am today, who have believed in their children and supported education!

Arctic Animal Researchers Hard at Work!

The animals have been chosen and the researching has begun.  The students ask themselves three questions that they were curious about before they read their books about their animals.  Then they used "close reading strategies" to answer their questions.  Finally they are putting together an Arctic Animal slide show using Biteslide.  These students are so amazing :)

Homophone Hubbub and Write Show and Share Tomorrow Morning

The students have been having fun "playing with words" for this Reader's Theater!

Come check it out tomorrow morning, Friday at 8:30, in the classroom.

30 Hands with Mrs. Rumney!

App Day!

Click on link above to watch video.

Homophone Hubbub

Homophone Hubbub

Reader’s Theater ~ Friday, January 24^th 2014

At 8:30 a.m.

Cindy – Emma         Peter – Brady and Kasen

Marie – Willow       Chang – Jeffrey and Charlie

Sara – Makinzie      Tamara - Juliana

Josie – Rowyn        Jeff - Payton

Mikela – Margeaux Jon – Shawn

Juana – Emily         Sam - Truman

Tyronne – Andrew  Lee – Derrick and Nathan

Please practice your parts for accuracy and fluency. 

Mrs. Lieck

Friday's Write Show and Share and Snowflake Family Project

The students were excited to share their clues and try to stump their classmates.  We did have three out of the five stump us.  Great reading, sharing and active listening!

Some of the students were also proud to share their January Family Project with their classmates.

How Fast Does Ice Melt?

Be The First One to Melt Your Ice Cube!

Polar bears habitat depends on the sea ice and snow den.  The polar bear adapts to the changes in seasons, and the melting of the sea ice, by eating lots of food during the winter months to survive through the summer.  Today the students tried to see how fast an ice cube would melt through a fun and interactive science game.  Thanks so much for coming into the classroom and helping with this science experiment Lindsey Lieck!

Hold it or float it!

Is it melting yet?

Brrr it is cold!

Blow on it.

Is it still there?

Drop it.

What happens when I add salt?

It is almost gone! 

Arctic Winds Continued to Blow

We have had so many inside recesses due to the subzero temperatures, but these first graders find a way to have fun with each other!

January's Write, Show and Share Dates

January 10	January 17	January 24	January 31
Makinzie	Emily	Derrick	Willow
Nathan	Margeaux	Payton	Jeffrey
Shawn	Emma	Juliana	Kasen
Andrew	Brady	Charlie	Marcel
Rowyn	Truman

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We had a busy morning. The day began with lots of sharing. Then we went to computer lab and began to create a shared tale using Little Bird Tales. Next in Math we learned how to regroup numbers into tens and ones. Then the students received their own logins for Sumdog and began to explore the math games using the netbooks. Finally the morning ended with Writer's Workshop and a Christmas vacation narrative.