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teacher’s gold

First Grade hosts “Kindergarten Buddies”

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The roller coaster ride of May and June has commenced!

As the end of the year draws to a close, the Kindergarteners were matched up with our First graders for “Reading Buddies”.  Every Friday, from now until the end of the year, K will come for a visit to our classroom which will give them a chance to taste a bit of  First grade magic .

There have been so many moments which I have dubbed “Teacher’s Gold” in my past blog entries but this past Friday was the gem stone moment. The First graders were thrilled to be the older buddy and took their responsibilities very, very seriously.  Each First grader was assigned a Kindergartener and given some suggestions as to what books might interest them.  In preparation for their visit, they gathered books from our extensive library and decided where they wanted to sit with their buddies.

Ready, Set, Read!

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I am in awe of my students and how much they have progressed this year both in their reading skills and their maturity in a multi-age environment!

Each student showed patience, gave encouragement and support to their buddies.  We the teachers could not stop smiling!

Next week, it will be the First graders’s turn to “step up” to 2nd grade.  We are busy preparing for our visit to 2nd grade in Writer’s Workshop and in Math by writing The 2nd grade teacher friendly letters about themselves and writing a “Math About Me” book. They will be presenting their work to her during our visit and have time to visit and experience a taste of what an incredible year they will have next year.  (Sigh…..I am going to miss them so!)

Stay tuned for our 2nd Grade visit next week!

First Graders Are Bridge Engineers!

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First Graders Are Bridge Engineers!

 

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First grade accepted the Science challenge to balance a dixie cup full of steal nuts on a  bridge made from  a single piece of paper and two plastic cups.  Our quick thinking students came up with several solutions and proudly displayed their discoveries with each other.

 

Preparation for  Kabbalat Shabbat.

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We are working hard for our Kabbalat Shabbat Celebration by practicing our songs and prayers and creating stain glass inspired Kiddish cups.

 

Tuna Fish Towers 

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The Tuna Fish drive is well on it’s way.  By Friday afternoon we had collected a whopping 144 (thanks to Yael who counted each one for us) cans of Tuna.  Way to go First Grade!

During our weekly Kabbalat Shabbat Assembly on Friday, Mr. Tilove held an open discussion  with the all of the students about the  objectives for collecting the cans for the Kosher Food pantry of Providence.  It was decided collectively that instead of a competition  between grades for the most tuna fish cans collected, the school now has been challenged to collect  1000 (of more) for the food Pantry.  The ice cream party will be for all the students if we meet the 1000+ challenge.

 

Special Visitor Thursday

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Thank you to Eli’s mom, Rachel for being our Special Visitor on Thursday.  Rachel brought in the English and Hebrew translation  of  The Cat in The Hat.

We both had a blast reading to the group each page in English and then in Hebrew,  what a wonderful idea!

Spontaneous teamwork at the end of the day.

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On Thursday afternoon after a long day, we made time for some Meditation and Yoga.

Afterwards these kids spontaneously organized themselves into a pyramid and asked me to take a picture of them.

This folks, is what I like to call Teacher’s gold.  A precious moment.

Shavouah tov!