Easter is on its Way!

We had a busy day today in first grade. Our caterpillars are changing. Please check the butterfly blog tonight for an update from Dawson, Ryan, and Catherine. Mrs. Myers changed our desks around, so we were excited to have new seats and groups. We were also excited to get our report cards at the end of the day! We can't wait to share them with you tonight! Our word of the day today was "follow". It was a rule follower. We learned to look at the sounds and syllables in the word today. We will be practicing syllables and sounds a lot over the next few weeks. The word "follow" is a verb. After recess, we had reading workshop. Mrs. Myers met with the bat group and the food festival group. At 11 o'clock, we worked on our phrase reading game. At lunch, we said good-bye to Miss Hartlaub, our Millersville volunteer. Then after recess, we heard the story, The Easter Egg Farm. We listened to see how the main character, Pauline, thinks and feels and what she sees and does. This helps us remember and understand the story. Next we had centers. We visited our third center and most of us painted in the art center today. Then, it was math time. We had so much fun reviewing fractions. Then, Mrs. Myers taught us how to look at fractions of a set. We used baskets of Easter eggs to show fractions of the set by color. Check out the paper tonight. We are going to look for sets of things tonight around the house. Maybe we can make fractions sets at home, too. Then, we had art class early, because Mrs. Mummert's class needed to switch her time. We had recess with the second and third graders. Many of us were excited! Finally it was the end of the day. We got to open our pen pal letters and read them. Then, we started writing back to our pen pals. We were so excited to hear from them! Mrs. Myers said that we will try video conferencing with their class soon, so we can see their classroom! Only one day left in the school week! Hooray!