Last blog post of the year!

Dear families and any visitors,

Hello and goodbye! We are starting summer vacation tomorrow. Some of us are happy and some of us are anxious. Today is a half day, and the last day of school! Thanks for visiting the blog and writing us nice comments!

Here are some of our favorite things from first grade:

• everything!
• choice time
• social studies, like studying commnity activists
• making a parachute for science
• block building, especially building the neighborhood
• writing poetry and magazines
• quiet time
• reading harder books
• our trip to the real farm
• Clara's guitar sing alongs

See you later, everyone!

The (almost second graders but still) First Graders (for now)

Last Family Friday of First Grade

Here are some photos from today's Family Friday, when we shared our writing projects from all across the year. In the beginning of the year, some of us were just learning how to write and now we're really good! Thanks to everyone who came to visit!

Our Fundraising Project Total!

Dear friends,

We were making money by selling food for everybody and we gave lemonade to them. They gave us money for the fruit salad and lemonade. We made the fruit salad ourselves. Some kids brought in the fruit. It wasn't hard. Thank you for paying us so much money that we made $248.35. That's the money from collecting "Change for Change" and from our refreshment sale, all together.

Here are the photos from the sale after school.

We have a little more money that people brought from home, so we'll add that too. Next time we write, we'll tell you what farm animals we donated from Heifer International.

Catch ya later!

The first graders





Reading Buddies and Raising Money

Dear families,

It's been a while since we had reading buddies with Stefanie's class, but today we did! Owen and other reading buddies were really good at reading clearly. We read poems from poetry books that the fourth graders wrote when THEY were in first grade or kindergarten with Clara. Now we're writing our own poems and we'll make a book too, just like them.

This Friday, today, we get to have snack sale, we get to see the fourth and fifth graders do a show, Rosie's Broadway Kids from Broadway and it's a musical. It's a totally fun day!

In our fundraising for our snack sale, we are going to do something in our class really fun, making fruit salad for our snack sale! We're going to cut up the fruit ourselves. The money is going to go to Heifer International to give farm animals to people who need it.

We already made $177.23 from collecting change in our "Change for Change" bags. WOW!!! This morning we guessed how much money we'll make all together after we have our sale. We guessed $1000, $200, $201, $250 and $315.08, and other guesses too. We'll tell you how much we made after we count it on Monday.

By,
The First Graders

p.s. We promise to tell you how much money we raised!