Career Day 2016

Today we saw some great professionals at school, who taught us a lot about what it takes to do their job. What a fun day of learning!

Thank you for all of your support at home that made career day a success at school!!

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!