Giving Thanks

Many thanks to all the parents who came in to school and shared in our Thanksgiving celebration and to those who sent in delicious finger food. We started early in the morning making woven place mats complete with Thanksgiving Wordles that the children created the previous day (check out the children's blogs for a close look at the Wordles) and place cards with very colorful horns of plenty. The children were very excited to rearrange the classroom and set up one very long table so that we could all sit together.

I am very thankful for such a wonderful group of caring, hard working, and interesting 1st graders!

Saving the world!

Have I mentioned lately how much I love first graders? Every day starts fresh with new opportunities, new friendships, and new ways of looking at what we already know to better help us learn and grow. The lens in which they view the world is clean and full of possibility. We all can learn from them.
Last week I gave the children a writing prompt asking, if you were a community helper who would you be and how would you help others? There were several doctors, vets, firefighters, police officers, a pilot and a librarian all helping others in various ways. One response stood out above the rest . . . we need to keep our eyes on this kid!

I am going
to be Rabin.
I am going
to get a lot of
musls. I am
guing to help plesmen.
I am going
to save the
wrld.

Kid Blogs

Today was the most exciting day of 1st grade by far! Everyone started their very own blogs by uploading a self portrait that they made way back in September and then commented on others self portraits. The number of clicks that this took seemed like an impossible number when we began learning how earlier in the week. At the request of several children a list of just what each click needed to be was created . . . never say young children can't follow a complicated series of steps if the end result is motivating!
1. Firefox (open to the WSD homepage)
2. Teams
3. Synergy
4. Ms. Rogers
5. class blog
6. kid blogs
7. your name
8. log in
- enter user name beginning with a capital letter
- enter password beginning with a capital letter
9. new post
- enter title: Hopes & Dreams
10. image
11. from computer
12. select file
13. drop down menu
14. H Drive
15. Houses
16. Synergy students
17. Rogers – Hopes & Dreams
18. your picture
19. O None O Left O Center O Right
20. Insert into Post
21. My Blog
Writing comments was a breeze after all these steps! Please take the time to check out your child's blog with them and let them show you how it's done. There link is located on the sidebar and will remain there throughout the school year. You may comment on posts by logging in as a parent. Once on the blog click parent from the list of names on the right and enter parent as the user name and password. As the administrator I must approve all comments prior to them posting live to the internet so you won't see them immediately. Have Fun!

11.11.11

Where were you when the clock chimed 11.11.11 / 11.11.11? All of Synergy counted up the seconds until the clocks simultaneously showed us this magical second . . .

We have been waiting for days and days for this moment in time.