End of the Year Celebrations

First Grade News Flash

The end of the year is almost here! Let’s celebrate all we have learned and all the fun we have had!!!

Awards Day will be Thursday, May 31, 2012 from 12:30-1:00pm in the gymnasium. This Awards Day will be combined for ALL first grade classes.
Ms. Matthews will be announcing student award winners. You are welcome to join us.

The next day, we will enjoy our End-of-the-Year Celebration (Friday, June 1, 2012 from 2:00-2:45pm). We will be reviewing all of the fun we have had and sharing some of our outstanding work. Please visit our Google Group or contact me or Becky Cooper if you are interested in volunteering for this fun event!

Thank you for all of your help. We look forward to seeing you at our celebration!

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                        Mrs. Harrell

Thank you, Donors!

With a nudge from Andreya Gomez (Thank you!), I recently signed up with DonorsChoose.org to propose projects that promote the education of our youth. The project, "Read to Learn" was fully funded thanks to some faithful parents and kind strangers. Thank you for your support! We have received over 35 books, including books on CD for our listening center. So far we have read a lot about Earth Day and simple machines. The books cover many nonfiction and historical fiction topics. Thank you to all who contributed to this project and to all who promote the love of reading!


My next proposal will be to seek funding for a book display case to make it easier for, "young readers [to] find what they're looking for even if they don't yet know what it is (Atwell, 2007)."