Hello First Grade Families!
Thank you for your patience as I have missed out on a few weekends of blog posts! There were conferences, then I was in a musical in Concord that opened the weekend before last and finally, all of a sudden, the holiday was here! Your students have been up to so much and you got to see a piece of that at our First Grade Feast. Thank you again to all who donated and attended! It was a huge success that truly reflected the feeling of community we have been trying to build amongst our first-grade teams. After families left school, our day before break was spent experimenting with the holiday staple, cranberries! We made predictions about what would happen to fresh cranberries in water and dried cranberries in Sprite, determined which cranberries were ripe by whether or not they bounced, and even examined how the natural dyes in cranberries can stain clothes and were once used for that purpose. After these experiments, we also participated in a taste test! We tried fresh cranberries, dried cranberries, cranberry juice, and cranberry sauce and recorded which foods we liked or dislike. I'll tell you this, fresh cranberries...were not a hit!!! Our final portion of the afternoon was spent celebrating your students' Small Moment writing! Students' books were typed, illustrated and bound, and before they went into our classroom library, we had a museum walk of sorts to share our stories! We decorated our tables, shared a special treat, and swapped stories with the friends around us. Please enjoy the photos from our whole day! This past week, though busy, was a wonderful reminder of how grateful I am for this career, this school, your families, and your students. Thank you for all you do for this BES community! ***A few notes:
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