Have A Great Summer!

Thank You

I can't believe that today is the last day of school. The year has gone by so quickly. I have enjoyed working with your children each and every day this year! Thank you for making this year a wonderful year. I appreciate all of our parent volunteers, you made the year extra special! I wish all of you a happy, relaxing, and safe summer! Please stop by and say hello next year!

A Year In First Grade

I have put together an end of the year gift for you, a video memory book of our year. It has highlights from our year together. I hope that it will remind you of all the great memories you made in first grade.

Love,

Mrs. Johnson

                     
A Year In First Grade -Large from Melissa Johnson on Vimeo.

Congratulations! You are officially 

Second Graders!

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Art Appreciation

Today, Mrs. Kaddatz, Mrs. Misner, and Mrs. Wascher came in and led the children in their last Art Appreciation activity. The children learned about the painting, “Peaceable Kingdom,” by Edward Hicks. After discussing the painting, the children created their own “Peaceable Kingdom” using stuffed animals they had brought to class. They created two different scenes with their animals. After, the children voted on their favorite painting from the year. Thank you, Mrs. Kaddatz, Mrs. Misner, and Mrs. Wascher. The children enjoyed your visits this year!

 

Happy Birthday

On Monday, we celebrated Xander’s bithday. Happy Birthday Xander!

Today, we celebrated all of our June and July birthdays. Happy birthday to Gabi, Nate, Nikolas, and Elena. We hope that you all have very happy birthdays in June and July!

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Here are some highlights from our week last week!

Social Studies

Last week, the children completed their culture comparison of China. We wrapped up the unit by creating dragons out of paper to represent the dragons used during the Dragon Dance. The children took their dragons outside and performed a Dragon Dance.

The children also worked together to complete a Venn Diagram comparing Chinese New Year to our New Year’s celebrations and traditions. This week, to celebrate the completion of our China study the children will get to watch the movie Mulan. 

China Presentations

During LMC over the last month the children have been hard at work researching life in China. The children worked in groups of three or four to research one topic about life in China. During the first week, the children read books and recorded information on their topic on sticky notes. The second week, they took their favorite fact and turned it into a complete sentence about life in China. They also compared the fact they learned about life in China to their life in the U.S. Then the children worked together to turn their facts into a slideshow presentation. Click on the links below to view their presentations. We hope you enjoy the children’s hard work!

Family and Homes in China by: Cathryn, Jackelynn, and Zach

Food in China by: Jack, Ola, and Ben

Holidays in China by: Mia, Ian, Nikolas, and Xander

Recreation in China by: Henry, Adrian, James, and Gabi

Schools in China by: Filip, Martha, and Riley

Transportation in China by: Elena, Ashlyn, and Nate

Field Day

Field day was a huge success! The children enjoyed participating in all the field day games. Their favorite station was the dunk tank! Thank you to our two parent leaders, Mrs. Wascher and Mrs. Wilt. The children enjoyed moving around to all of the stations with you. Thank you also to all the parent volunteers who made field day possible. The children had a great time! Below you will find a slide show of photos from field day. Enjoy!

Notes:

Thursday, June 5th is Game Day. Bring your favorite board game to class to play. It is also the last day of school for students.