U.S. Cellular Presentation!

U.S. Cellular came to our classroom to present us with a certificate for our grant and flowers! 

Be a "Jean"ious, Say No to Drugs!

Thank You U.S. Cellular & Donor's Choose!

I am so excited to announce that U.S. Cellular teamed up with Donor's Choose and funded 1 Million dollars of projects on www.donorschoose.org.  We were very lucky to be one the recipients.  Our classroom received a Samsung Chromebook and a purple Chromebook case for students to use during math, reading, and writing. Today was the first day we got to actually dig in and use the Chromebook.  We had to send it to our tech department after it got delivered to get some internet filters and get it licensed.  The kids were so excited and those who did not have a turn today are anxiously awaiting their turn!

Pumpkin Investigations

We had so much fun today in first grade!  We did a science experiment this afternoon.  We investigated pumpkins.  We had three of them, two of them were large and one was fairly small.  We described the outside of the pumpkin, estimated how many lines were on it and how many seeds were inside it and then we gutted the pumpkin.  After we gutted the pumpkin the students drew pictures of how Ms. Kylea and I should carve the pumpkins and when they went to gym, we carved away.  When they returned from gym we counted the seeds that were in each pumpkin.  The largest pumpkin had the most seeds, but not by much.  In total we had over 1,300 seeds.  It was fun to see how the different groups counted the seeds.  My group put them in rows of ten, Ms. Kylea's group counted by ones, and Mrs. Sommerio's group counted by twos.

Jog-a-Thon Fun!

We had so much fun at the Jog-a-Thon today!  I was impressed with how much these kids ran!  Make sure to continue to collect pledges and turn in the blue incentive slips on the appropriate day next week!

 Whitney came and ran a few laps!

And they're off!