Comparative Endings -er and -est

Good evening!

Today, students learned how they can use -er and -est to compare different things. Our spelling words this week also use the same word endings. While the students really seemed to grasp the idea, there are still some tricky things that we need to know in order to spell the words correctly. If your child is having trouble with these words, I created a short video tutorial using Educreations.com to help! (It may help you, too! I struggled with explaining this at first!)



Also, take a look at this link for a FUN game using comparative endings:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/trampolini.html

Stay warm and have a great night!

:-) Mrs. B

Busy Bees!

Happy Weekend!

I hope you are having a relaxing Sunday. Here are some photos from the last couple of weeks. We we SUPER busy and had a great time! Take a look:

Happy Birthday, Clara and Talan!

We learned all about place value in math!

We also built see-saws in science!

Our mystery reader, Michelle Anderson!

Students learned how to visualize in reading through illustrating the story The Salamander Room.

More math fun!

We are finally assembling our number scrolls!

Here, students are playing a game in Spanish to help reinforce number and color skills:

Students we so fortunate to join their buddies to learn all about HEARTS! 

Thank you to Mr. Ornberg for presenting!

Our star student, Logan!

Students learned the differences between facts and opinions, and practiced by doing this "craftivity!"

Making valentines for our 4th grade buddies:

FIELD TRIP! We loved learning about animal tracks at Dodge!

Our 100th day of school. I think our 1st graders have really matured!!!

On our 100th day, Mr. Tinjum came in to teach another lesson on kindness. What a great way to celebrate our 100th day!

Our friend, "Zero the Hero" stopped by!

Time for snack! Students made a special 100th day trail mix!

We learned that 10 pieces of 10 different items will give us a total of 100 snack pieces!

Ta-daa! Time to eat!

If you have made it through 100 days of first grade, you deserve a crown:

And, of course, we came back to our picture frame to see how we've changed over 100 days:

Thanks, Krista, for being our mystery reader!

Happy Valentine's Day! Here, students are collecting data in "candy heart math!"

Jump Rope for Heart: We jumped in honor of our dear friend Ed Helgesen. Our community worked hard to earn money for the American Heart Association. We earned (drumroll, please)...

$7,511.86 AND COUNTING!!!

Way to go, Somerset!

Valentine Bingo!

We have TWO Valentine's Day Birthdays! 

Happy Birthday, Mason and Madeline!

Students LOVED sharing valentines with each other!

Now...for my favorite picture of the week. This was taken during independent reading time on our 100th day:

It cracks me up every time! These adorable first graders look just like old men and women reading the newspaper. Love! :-) What a fun day!

Take care,

Mrs. Brignac :-)