Grandfriends Day!

Each April, our community invites grandparents and other special friends to join our students for an afternoon together.  On Friday, the students in 1A were so excited to greet their grandparents and special friends or "grandfriends" as we sometimes like to say!

After finding our guests on the playground we enjoyed Meeting for Worship together in the Meeting House.  Next on our agenda was a visit to the Annual All School Art Show.  The first graders were so eager to point out and share their art with their grandfriends and to enjoy the art from our youngest students in Pre-K all the way to our Seniors in upper school!

Finally, we walked back to our classroom to celebrate spring and create coffee filter flowers with our grandfriends.

It was a lovely afternoon!  Thanks you to all of our grandparents and special friends for traveling, taking time out of your schedule, and for sharing the afternoon with us!  

First graders what do you enjoy doing with your grandparents or special friend?  Post a comment to share with all of us.  

Earth Day at FSB!

We celebrated Earth Day at FSB on Thursday, April 17th.  Our day kicked off with a delightful All School Convocation where we heard the Orchestra,  The Quaketones & Pleiades,  Little Friends Singers, and watched the lovely Ballet Trio.  Convocations at Friends are always a treasure and this one didn't disappoint!

After convocation, we met up with a group of 7th graders who would serve as our buddies for the bulk of the day.  Our first activity was to use recycled materials to create a project called "Recycled Blooms."  We had been collecting colorful boxes, small lids from bottles, and straws for the past several weeks.  Using these materials we got to work:

Visit the Art Show beginning on Thursday to see all of our Recycled Blooms!

After, we headed outside for some chalk drawings:

Next up was lunch and recess with our seventh grade friends and then we headed back to room 230 for........... Worms!! 

We enjoyed the story Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin:  

We also watched this short video about how worms are helpful and how to create your own worm farm!  

http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/show/wormfarm.html

As much as I thought it would be fun to create our own worm farm in 1A, I thought creating an edible one might be even more exciting! 

Using the following ingredients, we got to work creating our own edible worm farms:

• chocolate pudding
• Cool Whip
• crushed Oreos (minus the frosting middles)
• gummy worms

Here's some photos of us making our worm farms, our finished products, and a few friends in 1A EATING WORMS!  

Maybe you can make a real worm farm at home!  

It was a terrific Earth Day at FSB!  

First graders what can you do to help our planet?  Post your idea so everyone can read it!