First grade engineers loving the Maker space!

Making our own personal Abacus to use as we practice addition strategies! 🤓

Although our Halloween parties were Friday, we celebrated a very special reader with awesome behavior and other reading and writing fun today! Great work Brooklyn! a Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools

Little by little, day by day. It’s all about progress, not perfection.

So proud of our first graders! Thank you Veterans! @wes_tjes

Student directed indoor recess collaborations at their best.... wait... is this “playing” ? Looks like fun to us! Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools @wes_tjes

Jada is sharing “Christmas Magic” with our class!

Learning by teaching, great job presenting; Christopher and Daniel. @wes_tjes

We enjoyed lunch, pizza and conversation with our new friend “Axel” today. Thank you again to the many families from room 113 who supported our food drive! Our conclusions: Axel is sweet, soft and has lots of energy... like us! Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools @wes_tjes

“Gingerly” building sweet houses! Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools @wes_tjes

Holiday fun in TJ room 113. We made it to break. Much gratitude for the Moms and Dads who supported our activities and volunteered their time during this busy season, especially our wonderful PTO! By the way, both of those boys are on the “nice” list! @wes_tjes Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools

Go Monsters! x-Cleveland Monsters

Learning a “Space Jam” dance at the Willoughby Fine Arts Center. @wes_tjes Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools

We love the Arts!

Hip Hop, Theater and Art! Great morning of learning for Thomas Jefferson First Graders. @wes_tjes Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools

Best Field Day ever! Jaguars know how to have fun!

Thank you Santa and helpers for stopping by in the fire truck to visit all of us big and little kids! ⁦Mayfield Village⁩