Safety First

Our evacuation drill is complete and if we must say so...our students did a Great job! We actually heard, "That was fun!" 

We left our Chet's Creek building at 10:00 sharp and we were home by 10:45. The students were well prepared with many discussions this week about why we practice many different kinds of drills. They also had their poetry folders in hand to occupy them during their short stay at Chet's Creek Church. Thank you Chet's Creek Church for hosting us and the sweet treats you gave us as we left! We all feel very prepared and safe if we ever have to evacuate our school. 

We LOVED the Zoo!

Here are some pictures from our field trip to the Zoo!  We learned all about animals and were even able to pet a few!

Quick Images with 5th Grade Buddies!

On Friday, we met up with our 5th Grade Buddies! Our first graders were very excited to be reunited as they had been asking all week about what we were going to do with our buddies! 

This week we focused on playing the Quick Image Math Game. The buddies took turns placing counters on tens-frames without his or her buddy looking. The partner then was given 2 seconds to look at the image and then had to determine how many counters were shown on the tens-frames!

The buddies discussed the strategies they used in order to determine the number of counters in such a short amount of time! Our 1st graders LOVE playing this game and I think that some of our 1st graders were better at this game than our 5th grade buddies! Shhhh! We will let that be our little secret! :)

Here are some shots we captured of our kiddos in action!

And We're Off!

We are loaded up and ready to go! Here we come Jacksonville Zoo!

5th Grade Buddies!

Here at Chet's Creek, our first graders are paired up with fifth graders as buddies for the year. This past Friday was the first time that our buddies met! It was a HUGE success! Each and every first and fifth grader was excited to get to know one another!

Our 5th grade buddies will come to our classroom a few Fridays each month and will spend time reading and bonding with one another! This was such a neat sight to see how our first graders looked up to his or her 5th grade buddy while the 5th grader took on role of a mentor!

This first meeting was spent getting to know one another. They completed the worksheet pictured below together:

We look forward to seeing these relationships grow here at Chets Creek! Here are some pictures of our 1st and 5th graders during their first meeting: