What's New In First Grade?

Clown Day|100th Day Of School| Sweetheart Breakfast |Winter Writing Celebration!| Holidays Around the World| Pumpkin Centers| The Chicks

Clown Day!
The first graders topped off circus week with clown day! Check out the clowns of Allen School!
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100th Day of School!
The first graders celebrated surviving 100 days of school with a big celebration!  There was singing, dancing, a reading of a great book, and so many fun activities to help celebrate this milestone!
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Sweetheart Breakfast!
The first graders invited their sweethearts to breakfast on Valentine Day to show how much they care about them!
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Winter Writing Celebration!
The first graders celebrated our published easy to read stories. Then we compared September's writing to December's writing and noticed the growth in our writing skills!  The first graders invite the whole school to listen to their stories!
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AROUND THE WORLD!

Check out all of the activities that the first graders are doing to celebrate holidays around the world!

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Pumpkin Centers
The first graders celebrated Halloween and the fall with Pumpkin Centers!  They measured and weighed the pumpkins.  They created pumpkin glyphs and did a veggie float and to top it all off they played pumpkin games and made popcorn pumpkins!

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The Chicks Have Arrived!
The First Graders raised chicks! The incubator arrived from Quiver Farms  to some very excited first graders!  Every day the kids check the incubator for any hatchings.  They have learned that chicks like to be kept warm.  In fact, the temperature should be kept at 99.5 degrees. They also have to make sure to turn the eggs, just like a real Hen would do!  They can't wait for the chicks to hatch!

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The farmer showed us grown up hens and chickens!

This is the incubator that houses the eggs.

These are all of the eggs in the incubator

You can see that all of the eggs are numbered so we can identify them and keep track of turning them.

This is the egg tooth! This is a part of the chick's beek that he uses to chip away at the shell!

Look inside an egg! The other chicks chipped away at this egg to remove the shell but not the membrane that holds the chick inside.

This is a newborn chick only about 1 hour old. We named her Kate because she was egg number 8!

Here are chicks, just two days old!

        For more information and fun activities about chicks and other farm animals, check out the following websites:

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Farm Animals
Farm Animals By Mrs. King (Gr1) Catch All The Eggs in One Basket Hatch and Match
Watch a Chick Hatch! Another Chick Hatching Movie Chick PowerPoint
4H Virtual Farm All About Chickens  

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