What is Your Snowman's Name?

by Allison Holtgrewe on December 15, 2011

Miss Holtgrewe's first graders have been working hard with writing complete sentences.  Each student created their very own snowman and gave it a name.  The students each wrote three complete sentences about their snowman.  If you ask each of the first graders, they would tell you their sentences need 5 things in order to be a complete sentence.

1. Every sentence needs to start with an uppercase letter.
2. Every sentence needs to end with punctuation.
3. Every sentence needs to have finger spaces.
4. Every sentence needs to have their letters formed correctly.  
5. Every sentence needs to make sense. 

The students also worked with estimation.  Miss Holtgrewe created a snowman out of cotton balls and the students had to estimate how many cotton balls it took to make it.  Each student did a great job on their estimations.  Selah Poppinga was the closest to the total.  Selah had guessed 120 cotton balls.  The final count was 124 cotton balls.