The Pony Express
Fun in First Grade
Learning with Mrs. Ackenbom's Littles
What a Week!
Read Every Day Pep Rally
What a great way to start off an exciting week!
Lovin' Literacy!
Reading Groups and Word Study!
We spend time exploring text with teacher instruction, with friends, and independently throughout the day. We even have Lucy, our reading dog, visit to listen to us read once a week. We are growing so much and are AWESOME readers!
Mrs. Lancaster's Group
Beatrice reading her sight words
Uri reading a new book
Hill "reading to self"
Eve tracking while reading
Oliver reading with Lucy
Donovan making words
Willa building words
Eve double checking her ABC order
McKenna "reading to self"
Lilly Kate listening to reading
Donovan "reading to self"
Beatrice tracing her brain book words in sand
Hill writing words he knows in Mr. Turtle
Nathan building words
Henry "reading to self"
Nathan and Walter acting out their story
Uri and Donovan love reading groups
We use Tucker Signing to help with segmenting and blending sounds.
Time Magazine Time!
We read a Time Magazine for kids this week and it was all about astronauts...perfect for this week's Content focus! Scroll down to find out more! :}
Book Buddies!
Math
Word stories fall edition!
McKenna is proud of her hard work!
UVA students help us during math groups each Monday.
We are using egg cartons (with one section cut off) to make a manipulative ten frame!
Look at Oliver make 6 on a tens frame! This is an AWESOME way to build number sense.
Look at that hard work!
A rectangle is just a rectangle...until we make it into a Fall Shape Tree!
UVA students help us develop an understanding of the relationships between numbers.
Here we are learning from Ms. Phoebe!
Elijah working on his story problem.
Shayna is focusing on making her equation match her picture.
McKenna is gluing leaves to match the words.
A rectangle tree in the works.
Eve using her pattern blocks.
And using the egg carton tens frame!
Mr. Chris and Tramel working together.
We are sharing a lot of stories that discuss shapes in the world around us.
Braxton and Uri are proud of their shape trees.
We use pattern blocks to investigate different shapes.
Here are some of the shapes we are learning.
Houston proud of his work!
Zyir using his imagination with pattern blocks.
Houston using touchpoints to complete his math equations.
Maddux had a lot of fun making his tree!
Elijah and Maddux working together.
Houston using his manipulatives.
They clear the tens frames before rolling the dice and making a new number.
Mokie Monday
Design 2015 - First Graders learned more about equines by examining their anatomy.
We learned what characteristics are shared by all equines on our Mokie Monday lesson. Students had the opportunity to examine a horse skull and examine the teeth to predict what the animal's diet is. We discussed how "eyes on the side, an animal will hide and eyes in the front, an animal will hunt" to show how horses are herbivores who only eat plants and not meat. Jerry Pallotta's Skull Alphabet Book and other horse books were a fun addition to our lesson.
Happy Fall Ya'll!
Veterans Day!
Our Littles Patriots
Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, also known as veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11th. Mrs. Ackenbom's Littles put their knowledge and appreciation of the armed forces into action by writing thank you notes to sailors and other veterans including my father, Admiral Miller! He even visited OUR classroom on Veterans Day and spent time teaching us all about Navy pilots and the military. Not only that, but we also had Mrs. Rowanhill, Nathan's mom, come and teach us all about the physics of rockets used in NASA and the military. Then we went outside and...BLAST OFF! We shot rockets into the sky and then designed our own rockets we thought would go the highest into the sky! What an AWESOME day of learning!
Reading a Jerry Pallotta Jet Alphabet book with Admiral Miller
BLAST OFF!
Our own rocket designs
About Mrs. Ackenbom
I am from a military family and grew up in several areas around the United States. I received my B.A. from the University of Mary Washington in American Studies. I enjoyed Mary Washington so much that I decided to stay and get my Masters of Science in Elementary Education. This will be my ninth year as a teacher and I love being a part of a child's individual learning journey. In addition to teaching, I am passionate about horseback riding and being active outside. I am very excited to be working at Crozet Elementary this year!
Email: sackenbom@k12albemarle.org
Location: 1407 Crozet Avenue, Crozet, VA, United States
Phone: 434-823-6470
About Us
We are Mrs. Ackenbom's Little Ponies! We want to learn something new every day. We use kind words with others. We treat others with kindness and compassion. We share. We take turns. We apologize. We have fun. We are first graders at Crozet Elementary - where we inspire and are inspired by the world around us!
Location: 1407 Crozet Avenue, Crozet, VA, United States
Phone: 434-823-4800