Happy Halloween!

What a fun day today. We wrote Halloween stories, made yummy marshmallow treats, and painted pumpkins. We hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween.

What's Cooking at the 1st St. Cafe

Last week we had a great time cooking in class. Our last Book of the Month was a wonderful story about how two people met and learned how different their cultures were with food and eating. The young lady in the story was from Japan and ate with chop sticks. So we decided learn a little bit about the Japanese culture. We were lucky to have Ms. Nikki come and teach us Origami - that was great. Then we talked about where Japan is located. Finally we made rice and stir fry- it was yummy.

Our Parents Are Awesome!

WOW!  Thank you to all our parents who donated money to Donors Choose.  Our parents were able to finish fulfilling our proposal in just 1 day.  We are so excited and can't wait to receive our new seat sacks.  THANK YOU!

Donors Choose - It's All In the Bag

Can you feel it? It's autumn! Our class could really use help with supplies in order to finish off the school year strong. So we've created a classroom project request on a 501(c)3 charity website called DonorsChoose.org.

We are writing to ask for any donations possible for our students - no matter the size, it will help our kids. This week only, any donation you make to my project will be doubled! If you know anyone who is passionate about education, please pass this along. Your tax-deductible donation will have a direct impact on at least 36 students, and you'll hear back from our class about your impact on our learning!

To learn more or donate:
Visit our Teacher Page,
http://www.donorschoose.org/we-teach/238988
Choose the It's All In The Bag projects, enter the amount of your donation, and click "Give"
During check-out, enter the word PUMPKIN where it says "Match or gift code", and your donation will be matched dollar for dollar.
The PUMPKIN match code will double your donation until the end of the day on Monday, Ocotber 15. So exciting!

Please feel free to send us any questions you may have, and know that we all greatly appreciate your support.

Happy Fall!
Debbie Harbour & Tenean Wright

Welcome to First Grade

Welcome to our classroom blog.  For those of you that are new to our class we hope that you enjoy this look into our class.  Our goal is to provide you a peek into what happens on a daily basis as well as all the special things we do throughout the year.  

The first two weeks of school have been very busy as expected.  The benefit of looping a class is that we start the year full speed.  This year we are implementing our new Common Core Standards.  First grade is a busy year academically and you will be amazed at how much your child grows and learns.  Here are some highlights from our first two weeks:

Parent Appreciation Brunch

We would like to thank everyone who joined us for our Parent Appreciation Brunch this morning. We hope that you enjoyed their Readers' Theatre and songs. We are very proud of how hard they worked on these activities. They did a fantastic job. It was great to see so many of you there this morning. We look forward to seeing you at our end of the year celebration on June 4th so mark your calendars. Thank you!

A House for Hermit Crab

Today we read Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab. What a fun story about a crab who wants to make his new shell a little less boring. Lucky for us Mrs. Sambito and Ms. Thomas have a hermit crab in their classroom and allowed us to borrow him for the day. It was so exciting to watch him creep out and walk around. And just like the hermit crab in the story had a beautiful shell so does this one. :)