First Grade Nature Trip!

Today we went for a short hike with Samuel Morey first graders and Miss Maggie to Southworth Park. We had the chance to look for insects, play a game called "predator, prey" and do some texture rubbings with clay and crayons. It was so much fun! This picture shows our closing circle where students shared one rose and one thorn from the day-one positive and one negative. It was impressive to hear how positive students were about our trip-even though it was a little wet!

Week TWO!

This week we learned new classroom routines, explored math centers, practiced whole body listening...
Started writing our hopes and dreams...

(This was the class list of things we hope to learn)

Worked on building up our reading muscles by reading longer each day...

(This is our chart where we track our reading stamina)

And we learned how to pick out our own good fit books...

(This is the chart we use to remind us what makes a book a good fit)

Week two was another great week!

Please remember that Thursday, September 13, 2018 is our field trip to the Tunbridge Fair! It would be very helpful if you had your permission slip in by Tuesday!

I have called some of you to check in about how the start to school is going and it has been wonderful chatting with you! If you haven't heard from me yet you can expect to hear from me before September is over.

Today we all took pictures for our Birthday wall! We will be trying a new Birthday Celebration routine where we pick one day each month and have a small celebration with one sweet treat and the rest healthy snacks! I will contact you before your child's birthday month to set this up. If you have questions about this, please let me know.