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Hi second graders! I hope your first week in second grade was terrific. I've been thinking about you and I hope to see many of you very soon (we might come up for recess on Monday or Tuesday)!

We've enjoyed our first week of homeschool and are packing, packing packing....and more packing!  Our house is coming along great.  

It should be ready for our final walk-through (via Skype- so cool!) in two weeks!  We have the movers coming to load up all of our stuff on September 24th and we will start driving to CO on September 25th. We're going to stop in Omaha, NE to visit my sister and her family for a day along the way and hope to be in Denver on September 28th.

We can't wait!!

I'd love to hear from you if anyone is still reading our little first grade blog!  Post a comment and tell me all about second grade or about something fun you did this summer.  

I miss you!

Our First Full Day!

It was a fabulous day in 1A today.  We started off our day by earning lots of Brownie Points.  Ask your child what these are!  We learned more about first grade today, went to the computer lab to check it out, and got to visit out our classroom library.  After recess we gathered as an entire first grade class to read the story, First Grade Jitters.  Then we enjoyed Jitter Juice to help make our jitters disappear!

Our day didn't end there.  After lunch, we went to Science and P.E. and enjoyed our first convocation of the year.

Although homework hasn't officially begun in first grade, please see that your child is reading daily and practicing shoe tying would be a great idea too if they are wearing shoes with laces.

On Monday, we'll begin sharing our summer pictures.  Please be sure to bring these in (photos or illustrations are fine).  If you haven't brought in your book list (a list of the books you read or listened to this summer), please send that in soon too.  Parents, please remember to complete the parent questionnaire ASAP.  Thanks so much!

Here's some photos from our day:

Enjoy the weekend!  I look forward to seeing all of our friends on Monday!

Day 1! So Much Fun!

We had a great first day of school in 1A!  We read and listened to Pete the Cat Rocking in my School Shoes and were very surprised when Pete left us a note in the book.  He told us he was checking out our cool school so we set off to see if we could find him.  He was too quick for us, but he left us a surprise in our room.

Click here for the song!

And a silly picture just for fun!

1A Students, what was your favorite part of our first day together?  Post a comment to share with all of us. Remember to only use your first name.   Use the pull down menu below the comment box to select Open ID/URL and then you can type your first name.

Enjoy your day off tomorrow and have a nice holiday to those who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah!  I'll be excited to see you again on Friday!

Orientation

Friends in 1A enjoyed our short time together today.  We listened to the story, You're Finally Here!  by Melanie Watt.

We made wishes for a great year with Magic Playdoh and decorated nametags that we'll use to help our new teachers in the Lower School get to know our names.  

Here's a slideshow from the morning!  I can't wait to spend more time with our 1A Friends tomorrow!

 

First graders, don't forget you can still use your confetti to help you sleep well again tonight!  I plan to use mine!