First Grade Enrichment Activities
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- Language Arts
- Class Play
- Writer’s Workshop
- PAWS for Reading
- Write and perform and opera by children
- Color Days
- Musical at end of year with Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Class Books
- Author Mom
- Holiday Centers
- Autobiography with blogging
- Independent Studies for GT
- Brown Bear Reader’s Theatre
- Math
- Advanced Work
- Individualized Centers
- PAWS for Success
- Apple Unit- graphing, measurement, estimation, patterns
- 100th Day of School
- Measurement Day
- Holiday Math
- Candy Graphing
- Science
- ‘Egg’ Speriment - dental health/teeth experiment
- Plant Seeds/growing plants
- Dinosaur Day (Soil)
- Water Day (Pirate Sink/Float, Sand experiment with water)
- Bubble Day
- Life Cycles
- Zoo Field trip
- Animal Report
- Science Mom
- Bubbles
- Liquid/Solid/Gas with ice cream
- Social Studies
- Map a Community
- Noun Town
- Get to Know Me Bag
- Guess N’ Tell Bucket
- I am Special - Project about me
- Holidays Around the World/Chinese New Year
- Hat Day
- Mapping the seven continents and oceans
- Jr. Achievement
- Pirate Mapping
- Art/Music/PE/etc.
- Class Play
- Guest Artist Teaches 2x’s a month - study different artists and styles
- Program (Plays, singing, dancing, opera, awards)
- End of Year Play
- Nutcracker
- Grade level music day on Fridays - seasons/holidays
- Dance Program
- Art related to authors
- Art based on famous artwork
- Cinco de Mayo Program
- Christmas Program
- Special Programs (ie debate, history fair, etc.)
- Mother’s Day Program (students memorize poems and make a book and art projects for mom)
- Teddy Bear Picnic at the park
- 1st Grade Special Days (Cowboy Day and Breakfast, Water, Dinosaur, Circus, Bubble, Pirate, Car, Bug, Ice Cream, Toy)
- Nutcracker Field Trip
- Dental Visitors
- Use finger spelling for different activities (sign language)
- Independent study unite
- Polar Express
- Candy Train
- Glow in the dark egg hunt
- Student Projects (like AV, Spirit Club, etc.)
- Halloween Diorama
- Animal Report
- Puppet Show
- Puppet Show on iPad
- Other
- End of year movie for each kid
- End of year Awards Ceremony
- Spring Egg Hunt
- Class Blog
- 3 class iPads used to do blog, assessment, projects, etc.
- Gold Medal Reading
- Themed Day at the end of the year (waterslide on water day)
- Skate/Wheel Day
- VIP Spotlight/Poster
- Think Time
- Water slide end of year
- Classdojo.com (Dojo club for kids who reach 200 point a month)
- Enrichment
- Junior Great Books for GT
- Field Trips (zoo, etc.)
- Dental Hygiene Presentation
- Interactive Whiteboard lessons, games, and activities
- Students learn to type spelling words on computers
- After school program teaching Japanese
- Big Chinese New Year activity
- Language Arts