Wednesday, June 11, 2014

June 11, 2014

We've had some fun events this week! Don't forget the last day of school is Friday, June 13 and dismissal is at 11:00.

Tuesday: The first grade set a goal to earn 400 green thoughts. We did it! So we celebrated by having First Grade Fun Day! Each classroom teacher ran a station throughout the morning. I was Just Dance, Miss Willoughby made root beer floats, Mrs. Charron  made lemonade, and Mrs. Thompson made birthday cards for the kids with summer birthdays. The kids were great and had so much fun!

Wednesday: JFK Celebration! JFK earned over 200,000 stars this year! To celebrate, there was a magic show and a carnival. The kids had a blast and Hope even got picked to help out with one of the magic acts! We loved playing the games from the Big Blue Trunk.




Friday, June 6, 2014

June 6, 2014

What a busy week we had! Wait until you see all the special events that we had this week!

 Monday: We filmed our school's own version of Happy! As soon as the finished video is ready, I will share it with you. The kids were great! They were flexible during technical difficulties and showed expected behaviors during the school-wide dance.Here is a picture of us waiting for the camera to roll by!





Tuesday:  Eh Man, a high school student, came down to dance for our class. We first saw his dance at the end of the Spring into the Arts video and loved it!  (The beginning of the video has our very own Alexis singing with the chorus!)


Miss Kirsten helped me track down his teacher and we invited him to come to our room.We were so impressed with Eh Man's dance! After watching him dance, we wanted to do it too. He told us the name of the song and we have been trying to dance like him since then. The song title is DubstEpic Symph by Robotboys.




Thursday: District-wide celebration! The entire district (K-12) got together and enjoyed some mindfulness and then went outside and had some yummy ice cream!

Friday: CAREER DAY!! Thanks so much for all your help and support to make this a great career day! The kids were so excited to share their hard work in front of all of you. I was enjoying the speeches and  I forgot to take pictures!



Sunday, June 1, 2014

June 1, 2014

Classroom News:
Huge THANK YOU to Joe, Peggy, Crystal, and Kadie for joining us on our field trip. I had a great time and the kids were exhausted when we got back to school. I took tons of pictures but I lost them all when I had to sync my phone with an old back up. Sorry!


 Literacy/Social Studies Focus:
This past week has been a big focus on getting ready for career day. The kids have finished the rough drafts of their speeches and we will be practicing starting tomorrow.



Math  Focus:
The mathematicians are loving geometry! We have worked on decomposing (breaking apart) and composing (putting together) shapes. We have also studied the attributes that are common among different shapes. This coming week we are exploring fractions!
Special Events:
We have a lot going on at school this week:


Monday: JFK is filming their own version of Happy! Here is Milton's version:

Thursday: Wellness connection with the our middle school buddies (more information later)

Friday: CAREER DAY! We hope you can come to First Grade Career Day! It is in the Performing Arts Center at 1:00. Hope to see you there!