Pawsitive Behavior Day

The first grade teachers are pretty excited about our Dr. Seuss themed Pawsitive Behavior Day!  We really enjoyed the opportunity to dress up and represent some of our favorite stories from the Dr. Seuss collection.  Can you identify the following characters: Cat in the Hat, Thing 1, Thing 2, Grinch, Lorax, bar-ba-loot, and Fox in Socks?

Our classroom had The Lorax theme because it is my favorite book in the collection.  I have a lot of fun sharing this story with students.  They especially like when I read quickly (I think they are hoping my tongue will get twisted!).

Here are the classroom decorations we enjoyed creating and sharing.

The Lorax had to be present on his truffla tree stump.

We also had plenty of truffla trees.

Posters were created to illustrate characters and memorable quotes from the book.

Students enjoyed a little photo booth fun.  Ms. Pace had made them Lorax mustaches (you know how we like mustaches in our class) for us to wear. 

Teachers jumped in on the fun too! Did you know bar-ba-loots admire the Lorax's mustache?

As we listened to the story being read aloud by a brown bar-ba-loot we enjoyed Truffla Trail Mix.  Each item in the trail mix represented something different from the story.  We had to listen carefully to the story and identify the representations before we could enjoy the tasty treats.  Many students were quickly able to identify pretzel sticks as representations for truffla trunks, a chocolate chip as a truffla seed, a marshmallow as a truffla fruit, teddy grahams as bar-ba-loots, and goldfish crackers as humming fish.

Our classroom was overflowing with Loraxes!  Aren't we cute in our mustaches?

Students agreed to one more picture with a bar-ba-loot.  We're all friends here.

We really did enjoy dressing up for our first graders today!!

Students were able to choose a movie ticket.  We were showing Horton Hears a Who and The Lorax this afternoon.  Of course, Hop on Pop popcorn was involved.  No one goes to the movies and doesn't get popcorn, right?

Pawsitive Behavior Day

As a reward for reaching 500 shout outs, school wide, we celebrated with an early Pawsitive Behavior Day. This time the theme was careers. First graders were lucky to have the opportunity to explore careers presented by each of the first grade teachers. Ms. White provided students within archeological dig where many treasures and fossils were uncovered. Students explored careers in music with Ms. Socha, and were able to perform their singing talents. They were invited to explore careers in law enforcement in Ms. McMurray's classroom with the help of Fletcher's police department representatives. Finally, in our classroom students were offered an unique experience in an effort to explore careers associated with flight. Ms. Pace and I built a life-size aircraft in the classroom that sat 22 passengers. We offered inflight entertainment and snacks as we red presented flight attendants. My father, Mr. Wilson was a guest in our classroom and spoke about careers in air traffic control. Of course security was of upmost concern, therefore no passengers were issued boarding passes or permitted on the aircraft without successfully passing through security.

During student's specials hour they were lead through a career fair where they learned about several more careers including paramedics, health care, technology, sports broadcasting, and many more!

We had a great day!