A gloomy, rainy day calls for raining high-frequency words!

This week we learned how to measure length and height with nonstandard units. We had a blast with our hands on measurement centers today!

These crazy kiddos earned their Blurt Bead reward this week. They chose to have Officer Tom read a silly story. Did you know Monster Love Underpants???

1st Grade's Rockin Field Day was a huge success!

We had a DINO-mite week in first grade! We researched dinosaur facts in small groups and got to present our findings to the class with our awesome posters! Our room was transformed into a Jurassic adventure, and we even got to practice being paleontologists! 🦖🦕

Watermelon Day calls for a picnic lunch outside! We had so much fun eating in the sun!

These boys are huge helpers! They were so excited to clean out our book bins!

We are so excited to welcome five new teachers to 1st grade! We can't wait to meet you! @Miss_Beneke

Officer Tom has been waiting eagerly for the new school year to begin! Don't forget to stop by the school tomorrow for open house! PreK - Kindergarten 10:30 am-1:00 pm, 1st-2nd grade 3:00-6:00pm

Today we made our Class Promise. We are excited for 1st grade and will help each other do our best to meet this promise each day.

Our names are a special part of who we are. We loved learning about what made Alma's name so special! We worked on our fine motor/gluing skills with our tear art name craft and celebrated all the amazing names in our classroom 🩷

Thank you to our amazing bus drivers for teaching us how to be safe while waiting and riding the bus!

We had an extra fun Friday today! Principal Pareja read us a story, we earned an apple tasting party for filling our class bucket, did an apple experiment, and met our 10 minute reading stamina goal!

We love learning about the symbols of Virginia! Today, we practiced being quiet in the hallway while finding the VA symbols!

These kiddos filled my bucket with awesome behavior choices when they had a substitute. They earned a Lunch Bunch time with me and an episode of Peep and Chirp!

Book Character Day! First Grade loves the "How to Catch a..." series !

This week in SEL, we are talking about friendship. We brainstormed ways to have fun with our friends and be good friends to others. Today, we got to work together to create posters with all those ideas!

We have been working hard on our research writing. Today, we got to do a project and choose how we wanted to make our animals. We could use blocks, playdoh, paint, construction paper, or markers!

Some of the fun homemade 100th day shirts worn today!

Does the type of material affect the amount of light that can pass through? We found out the answer today with our investigation!