Following Whacky Wednesday, Pajama Friday and Favorite Character Days during Spirit Week, we are winding down.  We have been briefly introduced to contractions, homonyms and abbreviations.  We're finishing up any writing projects and sharing these with the class. Most of us can read and write time on the hour and half hour now.  Many of us can read time to the five minute and minute too!  Bravo!  We are also practicing several calendar skills, e.g.,  "What will the day be two weeks from now?"

  The students had a LOT of fun serving our gracious classroom volunteers some tea, sandwiches and cookies on Wednesday morning.  We enjoyed reading aloud some of our creative poetry and written stories that these volunteers helped with as well.

   The last week of school is a busy one but also a very fun one.  We have several assemblies, a class party, some folder work to complete and some vegetable soup to have with ingredients from our courtyard garden!  Each student in the first grade will have a teeny tiny cup of soup with our carrots, beans, onions, parsley, cabbage and cherry tomatoes I'll have to cheat with these...there wasn't enough sun the last few weeks for our tomato plant :(