We had a fantastic start in first grade today! The students worked hard on generating a list of classroom rules and following them in order to stay on our class bee hive. We read the story "First Day Jitters" by Julie Danneberg. Ask your child to tell you about the "surprise ending". Next, they brainstormed a list of words to describe all of our feelings today. Some of the words included: happy, tired, hungry, excited, nervous, sad, and scared. The students wrote about how they were feeling using the vocabulary we generated and drew a picture to match their text.
The day was quite long for many, especially those who were used to half day kindergarten. Many of them kept wondering when they were getting back on the bus! This is certainly a big adjustment but I must say they did rise to the occasion.
The green folders that went home today are for official school housekeeping. Tomorrow I will be sending our first grade orange folders that will go back and forth daily (except Friday night). Have a great night!
Thank you,
Mrs. McAuliffe
