First Week of School!

Welcome to our new school year! We have been in first grade for 3 days now and we are having a wonderful time in room 7 so far! Everyday I have been amazed by how kind, helpful, and engaged this group of students is. As our school rules say, this class has really been kind, safe, and doing their best all week. Below you will see some photo highlights from our week. If you do not see your child pictured please make sure that I get your signed blog permission slip back as soon as possible so I can start featuring photos of everyone here each week!

Some of the things we did this week (pictured here) include using our smartboard for math activities, doing a "survey" of how students felt about starting the new school year, reading the book First Day Jitters and drinking "Jitter Juice" to get rid of our jitters then tallying how many people did or didn't like it, reading the book The Kissing Hand to talk about feelings of leaving home to start school again for a new year, learning to care for our classroom library and choose/return books each day, playing the "Mystery Name of the Day" word study game allowing us to review vowels, consonants, and syllables while learning about a new classmate each day (we started on the second day of school and have learned about Callan and Trevor so far), exploring some of our math materials, and doing some writing.

Stay tuned for more next week!

Field Day

During our last week of school we had Field Day at Airport Park. It was a hot, sunny day and we played lots of fun games, many including water! We also had a visit from Champ and from the ice cream truck which gave everyone a popsicle! Here are some photos from the day.

Have a wonderful, relaxing, fun, and safe summer everyone!

Author Visit

Another special event we had in June was a visit from local author, Abbie Bowker. She wrote the book Wooly Bear Winter which includes both her sister's poem about Wooly Bear caterpillars/animals preparing for winter and non-fiction information about Vermont animals in winter. Abbie spent two days with us. The first focused on teaching kids about being an author and the second focused on teaching kids how to write and illustrate a Haiku poem! Here are some photos from her visit.