Last Day of First Grade!

Today was the last day of first grade! We started our day with a band assembly. We heard lots of great songs played by the sixth grade band at Sinking Springs. We learned about the different families of instruments. Mrs. Graves had the third graders play music from recycled instruments they made. We also had our last town meeting at Roundtown for the year. When we came back to our classroom, we had our own morning meeting. We did the snowball greeting, where we each wrote our name, with a good-bye message. We threw the snowballs into the middle of the circle. Then we found a snowball, shared the message, and hugged good-morning to the friend who threw it! After recess, Mrs. Myers helped us made a time capsule. Mrs. Myers is going to keep is for us until just before we graduate in 2020! We had to write down some of our favorite things. We also had to write a letter to ourselves for when we graduate. Then it was lunchtime. After lunch, Mrs. Myers read us the story, The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark. Before we read, we made a book to book connection to the story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, we predicted what would happen to the first, second, and third first, using what we already knew from the pig story. When we read the story, we predicted correctly! YAY! Next was our movie time. We watched an Arthur at Camp and Arthur at the Beach. Finally, it was time for recess again. After last recess, We got our pen pal letters. Our pen pals didn't have a webcam, so we never got to do our video conference. We were sad, but we were happy to read our last letter. Mom and Dad, ask me if I would like to keep writing to my pen pal. Mrs. Myers will send them my address, if you give her permission through an email to jmyers9@cysd.k12.pa.us. You have to tell her before Monday morning! At the very end of the day, we had a classroom award ceremony. We were celebrating all of the proud accomplishments that we had in first grade. Mrs. Myers awarded each of us a special award to show the area we were most celebrate at! Have a great summer! We will all miss each other! YAY! We are second graders now!