We had a fantastic Valentines Day in First Grade! We had five great moms come to help with the party. At the party we divided into four groups for stations. One station made "Love Bug" headbands. Station two decorated and ate heart shaped cookies. Station three played bingo at the rug for fun prizes. Station four made cute valentine boxes with sucker butterflies. We had fun all morning sorting and counting our Valentines too! Thank you for all the fun Valentines I received. I appreciate all of the parents so much!

We've had a fun week learning about maps, using the Three Little Pigs story. After reading the story, we made a replica of the houses and scenery.

I divided the students into 5 groups: scenery, wolf's house, house of straw, house of sticks, and house of bricks.

I used legos for bricks, toothpicks for sticks, and raffia for straw.

Here's the finished product!

We made "Keys" to show the important places in our replica. Then we made maps and lined up the compass roses to verify that our maps were a true replica. The students learned that if you don't line up the compass rose, the map isn't the same for everyone.