Reading with the Monarchs

We had a great treat at school this afternoon--a visit from a few members of the Manchester Monarch's!

Josh Brown (#3) and Darik Angeli (#10) came to visit a few first grade classroom and read the book “The Bulliest Dozer” as part of the Monarchs Against Bullying program. 

After the book, we learned that the Monarch's practice for an hour and a half a day, and went to school beyond high school (one player was from Canada--they have a different system of schooling!) and had to keep learning before becoming professional hockey players.

What a great treat to learn about their job and to talk about why we shouldn't be bullies.

Gingerbread Houses

Just before Christmas vacation the first grade teachers provided all the supplies needed to make gingerbread houses.

This was a culmination of Art and Math units looking at shapes, partners and designs. Many thanks to Walmart and Hannaford for generous donations to make this possible!

The students had a great time decorating and designing their houses!

The results were fabulous!

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Well, not as frightful as December weather can be! But it was too wet to play outside at recess. We had a wide variety of activities to choose from in the classroom....

Go Noodle for those who wanted to move:

Legos (we have master builders!)

Blocks:

Magnetics:

Drawing with stencils and markers:

Thanksgiving Feast!!!

This morning the first graders got to enjoy the fruits of their labors and had a feast of cornbread, butter and water to wash it down. 

(Sorry it's blurry--moving objects!)

I think you can tell from their smiles that everyone enjoyed themselves!

They got a treat to watch Charlie Browns Thanksgicing while the teachers cleaned up. 

Happy Thabksgiving everyone!

Thanksgiving makings and creations!

Today the students had a fun filled afternoon getting ready for Thanksgiving at school. They got a chance to visit other classrooms and complete a different activity at each stop. First, they made bracelets with Mrs. Lyscars. Each brad represents something different about Thanksgiving. 

Then they headed to Miss Rowley's room to make cornbread muffins. I didn't catch pictures of those but I will snap a picture tomorrow when we enjoy them at a smallThanksgiving  feast!

After a break for snack, I made butter with the class. Everyone had a small container of heavy cream and we danced and shook our containers until we made butter! It was pretty magical. 

On the left is the butter, surrounded by buttermilk and on the right is what is left once the buttermilk is drained--a bit of delicious butter! That will certainly be yummy on our muffins tomorrow!

For the last stop everyone went to see Mrs. Field and made a nice fat turkey for Thanksgiving. Those are coming home today!