Today we read Balloons Over Broadway and then planned, designed, and created our own ideas for floats! Happy Thanksgiving! Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin #STEM

Today we enjoyed an amazing Farm to Table feast complete with zucchini bread and butternut squash soup! Thankful for Audrey Bellovin ❤️

Fun centers like Capture the Squares have helped to build our fact fluency! We roll two number cubes, find the sum, and try to capture a square around a sum one line at a time. The person with the most squares captured wins! Illustrative Mathematics Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin

Sharing our journals with friends is always exciting! Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin

Keeping students engaged in their reading this week with our fun colored finger lights! Today we practiced looking closer at vowels and trying them two ways when stuck on a word. #engagement #readingworkshop Audrey Bellovin Garden City SD

Working together to beat the clock with fast facts! Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin

Spin that trick word! Practicing writing our Fundations trick words is so much fun when a white crayon and markers create a magic reveal 🪄 Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin

What’s on your head? A fun way to practice letter/sound association in Fundations! #fundations Garden City SD Audrey Bellovin

Today we read Balloons Over Broadway and learned about how the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade started! We then planned, designed, and created our own ideas for future floats! Melanie Odone Garden City SD

Writing Rockstars! Our Firsties are working hard on writing their How-To books! Melanie Odone Garden City SD

👀 and 👂🏼 to this partnership in the Poncet class discuss their strategy for counting this collection of beads!! Kimberly Poncet Melanie Odone Garden City SD CCardellaGC Illustrative Mathematics #MathForEveryMind

⭐️ The Firsties in the Poncet class launched 🚀 unit 4 today & discovered there are strategies used when counting bigger collections. The students 🌬️ blew me away today with their 💭conversations and flexible thinking 🧐 Kimberly Poncet Melanie Odone CCardellaGC #MathForEveryMind

❤️ This First Grade Partnership Melanie Odone discovered organizing by color is helpful but not as good of a strategy like grouping together to count more efficiently 🤯 Kimberly Poncet CCardellaGC #MathForEveryMind Illustrative Mathematics

That face says it all ✌🏼 students in Kimberly Poncet Melanie Odone had a 💥 during center rotations. Moving from 5 in a Row digital center to practicing addition facts on cups and stacking them to celebrate 🎉 CCardellaGC Illustrative Mathematics #MathForEveryMind

Love seeing those smiles! 😊 Sounds like Kimberly Poncet's students at Melanie Odone are fully engaged in math center rotations! #LearnWithIM

‼️ Warning : The Poncet Class Melanie Odone are happily exploring larger numbers 🔢 with our newest math center, ✏️ Write Numbers! So much learning happens during center time!! Kimberly Poncet Illustrative Mathematics CCardellaGC #GCgrows #MathForEveryMind

1️⃣st graders in the Kimberly Poncet Poncet class @Hemlock engaged in a new center, Get Your Numbers In Order Illustrative Mathematics This game really had our 🧠 working. We can’t wait to play it again. CCardellaGC #MathForEveryMind

Field Day with the Poncets! Shout out to the best principal, staff, and parent volunteers for making this day so special for our kids ❤️ Garden City SD Melanie Odone