Symphony, Science, and Compliment bags!

St. James had the opportunity of watching the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra. The performance was centered on movements, not just musical, but physical too. It was an excellent experience for the students. This interactive show was fantastic and showed the children that classical music can be fun!

First grade has been classifying different animals based on their characteristics. The children had the chance to see a real reptile up close. One of our eighth grade students, Cooper, brought his bearded dragon to class. Beardie got to stay in first grade all day, and the children had a question and answer session with Cooper. We all loved hearing the interesting facts about the reptile. We’re so thankful that Cooper allowed us to have Beardie in our class and shared his knowledge with us.

This past fall I wrote a grant to get items that would enrich my reading and math groups. I was fortunate enough to be awarded my grant. I was able to purchase so many spectacular tools for reading and math groups. I cannot thank the Junior League of Texarkana enough for presenting me with the Teacher Take Wing Grant.

It has become a tradition in first grade for the children to make compliment bags to hold all of their valentine goodies. I provide the large white bags and the students provide the compliments! Each child writes a genuine compliment on every child’s bag. This takes a bit of time for each kid to think of an original compliment for every student in the class. However, once this activity is complete, the students have a bag covered in sweet words and phrases from every single one of their classmates. It’s one of my favorite things for the students to do.