The last day of school!

Dear Families,

Today is the full last day of first grade! We're having a class party today. On Monday is the last day of school, and we have a half day.

This morning we made memory books about first grade. All of the kids did a wonderful job on their books. Some of our favoirte memories from first grade were . . .

• Driving the combine during drama with Kelli
• Going on a class trip to Queens County Farm and going on the hay ride
• The school picnic
• The first morning meeting greeting, when Clara came back to work, which was the pinky shake
• We wrote nonfiction magazines for Writing Workshop 
• Meeting Clara's baby, Vera
• Learning to be strong readers
• Measuring fish in math class

We hope we all have fun in second grade!
 
We'll see you next year, we hope!

From,

Clara, Heather, Nellie and Nile's first grade class

p.s. Now we're second graders!

Salutations!

Greetings, families! Salutations!

We didn't write last Friday because we had the school picnic. We went in the sprinklers and had so much fun at the picnic. We all did some activities at the picnic.

Today we finished Charlotte's Web as a read aloud! It was sad when Charlotte died.
Now we can watch the movie.

We finished our garden model in the block area. We made lots of things for the garden like in a real garden. We named our garden "El Jardin de los Ninos Brillantes." It means "The Garden of the Bright Children." We got the idea for the garden's name from gardens we saw in the neighborhood, like "Children's Garden" and "El Sol Brillante."

From,
The First Graders

Today we had a project share. We shared our poems, our writing projects from earlier in the year, our model in the block area, and math.

Oh my! What a lot of activities!

Good morning, families!

Today we are going to start to make a project in the block area. We're making a model of a community garden.

Today we are also going to watch a movie. We are going to watch Charlotte's Web.

Today is the last day of clubs.

Now that it's June so there's no more homework!

From, the First Graders
(and Clara and Heather and Nellie and Nile!)