Washington County Riverboad Foundation Grant

At their meeting on May 16th, the Washington County Riverboat Foundation awarded grants to 45 recipients totaling $1, 199, 891.  Washington Township was the recipient of one of those grants for a little over $6,000.  The grant was for laptops to be used in the classrooms.  A big thank you to the foundation.

Camp Read-a-Lot

Camp Read-a-Lot was a huge success.  We had several guest readers.  Miss Wilson, Mr. Schneider, Mrs. Harris, and Mr. Parrott all shared a favorite book.  We read all day long and had a great time.  We will have our S'mores on Friday afternoon, as we ran out of time today because of the early out.  Check out the pictures!!

Will it rain tonight?

As part of our weather study we are to keep track of rainfall.  Since tonight is the best chance for rain for a while we made our rain catchers this afternoon.  We out them right outside our classroom in hopes of catching some rain tonight.

Math Review

We have reached the end of Chapter 9 in math.  We will spend the remaining days of first grade reviewing math skills we have learned.  Today we played a penny, dime, dollar exchange game.  Children rolled a dice and took a pre-arranged amount of money from the bank.  When they got either ten pennies or ten dimes they had to exchange them for a comparable amount.  The children get more practice than they realize when playing games such as these.

What do these pictures have in common?

We filled the bucket with our good behavior this morning!  Since Martha was making sack lunches anyway, we decided to take advantage of the good weather and eat lunch outside as a reward.  While it was a little windy, nobody blew away and we had a great time.  Way to go, First Graders!!

Community Service Afternoon

The first graders had several students absent this afternoon for a variety of reasons.  We decided to take the afternoon and help out around the school.  Box tops needed to be cut out and pasted to the recording sheets so we started with that.

After we got done cutting out our $85 worth of box tops we cut and sorted soup labels.  The kids were amazed at how much they got done in a short amount of time when the all worked together.