First Grade is Back!
First Grade is back in action with a new group of students and I already know that it’s going to be a phenomenal year! Walking into First Grade can give some students the jitters. To help ease the transition and calm back to school nerves, the class had Jitter Juice. This sweet drink, along with the short poem, allows the students to be silly and talk about how they are feeling. After Jitter Juice we tied in a mini math lesson involving tallying and greater than/less than.
The school routine takes a little bit of time to get used to after the summer break. These kids jumped right back into the groove and have been working so hard since our return. They’ve written to 100-120 and have been practicing reading independently and to a partner. In science we had Cracker Lab where the students had to use observable properties to describe the matter (the various crackers). In history we’ve started the stories about Early World Civilization and it was fun to outline the Euphrates and Tigris rivers with bright colors.
