My Dearest 1st Grade Class, My year this year with you started with a bang the minute the doors opened on the first day of school. Your kids...

Notes went home about student-led conferences. Be sure to sign up for a conference time! The sign-in sheet is posted outside the classroo...

You are already filling out a reading log nightly...it would be a worthwhile cause to fill this out, too! Reading lists are due November 3...

This picture does not do their work justice. You will just have to come see it for yourself! To follow-up on the Matisse art a la carte less...

Thank you Mrs. Hanks for baking yummy pumpkin muffins today! They went along great with our pumpkin study today!

Reading groups are plugging along daily. The kids are doing awesome and can see growth in everyone. !Today we used our "witch fingers...

FYI...If you are at school you will not be able to hear the YouTube based music! The students created a self-portrait using oil pastels emul...

Always a new game...gotta keep them actively participating. Today we played, High Roller. I can see such a difference in their ability to ad...

Please forgive me if I didn't see you at Spooky Spaghetti! There were so many people...and your costumes were very tricky! It looks like...

Today we paired up with Mrs. Musters' 3rd grade class and planted kale, fennel and beans in the new garden. The plan is to take turns da...

Today was as good a day as any to make flags and introduce US national symbols...Statue of Liberty, US flag, bald eagle and the Liberty Bell...

Today we played around with macaroni to create our own quotes. I'm starting to see quotation marks in their journal writing! :-)

Chemo on Fridays makes a yucky feeling teacher on Mondays. Bear with me...we can do it!

Today we finally got around to finishing the lesson on Christopher Columbus that we started on Monday. I swear we just don't seem to hav...

During reading groups rotations, the children had 2 days to observe the different properties of a collection of gourds. I think their favori...

I think fun stickers would make almost anyone want to write...don't you think?

Today during reading group rotation, we played a new Envision game called "Parts of a Whole" to introduce subtraction.

Today we played "rolling for 50." It is a game to better familiarize ourselves with the 100's chart and how to move around the...

Hi Parents! Just a quick reminder that our class party is this Wednesday, October 13th from 5:30-7:30 outside at the Mark Twain Pavilion. ...

Today we read Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni. After being inspired by Matthew's Dream, we listened to classical music and painted ou...

Today was the garden dedication. We had lovely weather! To kick off the event, every child in each class wrote their wish for the garden and...

In art ancillary the children learned about Piet Mondrian. They explored straight lines, primary colors, rectangles, squares and grids.