Hello Families! We are back into the swing of our first-grade schedule! They did wonderful yesterday on their first day back. Our room is decorated with Christmas decorations. There is nothing like my first graders to notice all we do to make their room special! We received our first gingerbread mail yesterday from Florida! Our […]
Mrs Brown, Mrs Driscoll, and Mrs Giacolone are talking with students and their families as students decide which Saint each will be for the Annual Saints Parade. Each K-2 student dresses as a Saint and Intermediate & MS students, families, and guests watch “When The Saints Go Marching In” as the parade moves around campus […]
Hello Families, I hope everyone has enjoyed the weekend! I am enjoying the cooler weather in the mornings. This past week flew by, and we had great fun doing our apple science experiments! We used our observation skills to describe and color images of our apples. We then weighed and measured them, too. This […]
Hello Families, This week we have a pretty regular week during school. The only addition is a “Free Dress” for $1.00 on Wednesday to support Hurricane Helene’s emergency efforts. Last week we returned to our study of scientists. We first looked at scientists a couple of weeks ago, and last week we turned to how […]
Hello Families! Well, September has flown by quickly! Luckily for us, we have had a lot of fun activities to learn! Concepts of time, sounding out difficult words, and writing interesting sentences! Thank you for turning in homework on Tuesdays! It allows me to get the “Homework Folders” ready to send back to families on […]
Hello Families! I was reviewing a draft I had begun for another email and saw I forgot to hit the send button for our newsletter this weekend! This week, we are continuing to learn about number placement in the number chart to 100, and numbers are broken up into ones and tens using our base […]
Hello Families! Last week went quickly! It was nice to have the temperatures come down a bit. This week we have Picture Day on Wednesday. Friday is a 2pm Dismissal too. This past week we worked on verbs while reading our passages in reading groups. In science, we began our inquiry on inventors and what […]
Dear Families, Thank you to all who came to the conferences. I truly enjoy hearing your unique perspectives of your child. Please do not hesitate to email me if there is a change in your schedules or if your child has any changes as well. This last week was wonderful, we were able to fill […]
Hello Families! First, I would like to thank everyone for attending our “Back-to-School Night” last Tuesday evening. I was so glad to be able to chat about first grade. If you could not make it that evening, I have send the slides via email. Many of the photos on the slides have links for you to […]
Wow! Look at the beautiful chart we created about friendship! These first weeks, we will read stories about friendship and what makes a classroom happy. In creating our chart, they came up with many thoughtful ideas about what a good friend looks like. First grade had a terrific week! They have already learned many of […]