“How many more?” 🧐The Difference Game gives students the opportunity to practice subtraction by identifying missing addends!

🔎Word detectives use what they know to read and spell words! What spelling patterns do you notice? 📚💬

These boys loved playing Mancala during indoor recess - one of the world’s oldest known games!

We completed an inquiry into the characteristics of Non-Fiction texts! 🔎How do authors of Non-Fiction texts write and organize to help us read for information? 🔎How will our reading strategies change as we read informational texts? 📕📗📘📙 #thinkers #inquirers

👌🏽Math partners share strategies and coach each other through challenging problems! #ATLskills #caring #communicators

💯🥳Happy 100th Day of School from your First Grade Team! 👵🏼🍓💕

💯🤩Flashback to our 100 Cup Challenge on the 100th Day of School! 100% teamwork! 100% effort! 100% fun!

💝One of my favorite days of the year... celebrating our special classroom community, how much we love and care for one another! ❤️🍓 #valentines #caring

💘Happy Valentine’s Day from the Room 203 Sweethearts! 💕💌💝

👕💛Check out our latest bulletin board!! Showcasing the students’ T-shirt designs through windows from around the world!! Thank you ismini naos and Angela Colabella for your creativity, time, and dedication!!! 💕

Kicking off Read Across America week by launching our Article-a-Day routine via ReadWorks !! Ss are so excited to add key information to their “Book of Knowlege!” 📖 #knowledgeable

👌🏽Word detectives sort and identify words with oa and ow spelling patterns when segmenting and blending words! Both spelling patterns make the long o sound! 🚣🏽‍♀️☃️⛵️🧥#readers #thinkers

💡Last week, first graders planned to make instruments or a communication device. Take a guess what this inquirer planned to create! 😍🧐🤩

🌟Ss made musical instruments and communication devices using simple materials. Most popular choices were the String Phone, Guitar, and Tambourine! Students’ creations showed how sound travels through vibrations! #thinkers #inquirers

🐉📚¡ Nos divertimos escuchar el libro “Mi Dragón y Yo” con Mr. Rodriguez! Thank you for inspiring us to read books in different languages, and all of the laughter! Principal Rodriguez Strawberry Hill, an Extension of RIS

🌈🇮🇪On Thursday, Ms. Katie helped us write letters to students at the Holy Family School for the Deaf in Dublin, Ireland! We are excited to have our very first Pen-Pals!! 🍀💌 #communicators #caring #penpals

🐺”Then I will huff, and I will puff, and I will blow your house in!” 🏘🐷We loved reading different versions of The Three Little Pigs! We practice retelling key details using the Braidy sequence! ❤️#readers #writers #tiedye

🙌🏼So proud of my students for working diligently at home to complete their assignments! Your smiling faces brighten up my day! 😍😍😍

“Chance made us colleagues, but the fun and laughter made us friends.” Going into our 5th year together! 🍓Amina Toor Mrs. Fajt Jesy Liamzon Clark @miss_mould BreeAnne Coombs

🍓Are you ready for the Strawberry Dash tomorrow? First graders can’t wait! Let’s get this party started! 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻Strawberry Hill, an Extension of RIS