An "out of this world" experience!

On Wednesday morning, we had a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch students from all of the Shaker Elementary Schools talk live with astronauts Joseph Acaba and Mark Vande Hei in the International Space Station.

 

It was truly an "out of this world" experience!

 

We had a "watch party" with the other first grade classes at Boulevard!

 

click here to watch the Q & A session

 

click here to check out Fox 8's coverage of the event

Field Trip - Century Village Museum

On Tuesday, our class took a field trip to Century Village Museum in Burton, Ohio. 

Thank you to Jodi Fife & Sara Lohser for chaperoning our field trip!

 

This field trip was an amazing opportunity for the students to experience first-hand what life was like for families who lived during this time period.

 

 

We saw cows, pigs, chickens & a horse!

 

 

 

We toured two different colonial homes.

 

 

 

 

We modeled the latest in colonial fashion.





 We saw what it was like to be students in a one room school house.

 

 

 We "shopped" at some of the stores.

It was a fun & fabulous Fall day!

 

Boulevard Bucks

Have you heard about Boulevard Bucks?

Boulevard Bucks are part of our new, school-wide positive behavior management system (more details at Curriculum Night).  Students are rewarded with Boulevard Bucks when they are "caught" making good choices by another Boulevard staff member.  Every 10 Boulevard Bucks = 1 letter towards the spelling of BOULEVARD.  Once a class earns all 9 letters, they are rewarded with a big surprise! 

Guess which class has already earned their first 10 Boulevard Bucks!!!!!

(We were the second class in the school to do so!)

Back to School 2017-2018

I am very excited about the first day of the 2017-2018 school year on Wednesday, August 23rd! 

 

 

Since the beginning of August, I have been preparing for the arrival of this year's first grade class.  I started by going on my annual school supply shopping trip.  My cart was overflowing with markers, crayons, supply boxes, pencils, erasers, folders, scissors and notebooks.  People were definitely wondering why I had so many things in my shopping cart!

 

 

I have been working in our classroom for the past few weeks organizing, decorating, and planning for the school year!  I have also found even more ways to add even more polka dots (my favorite pattern) to the classroom décor.  I am working on adding a few more polka dot things before my new students come!
 

I will be spending the rest of this week and the beginning of next week putting the finishing touches on the classroom so that it is ready for August 23rd.  I can't wait until my new first graders see their new classroom!



Meet Clementine

Meet Clementine: 

This cutie pie is my new French Bulldog puppy!  She, along with her four siblings (3 girls & 1 boy), was born on May 2, 2016.  I brought her home over July 4th weekend - when she was almost 9 weeks old.

Clementine and I spent a lot of time together this summer!  We played, went for walks, snuggled, and met lots of new people and animals.

Clementine has lots of toys that she to play with.  But, this one is definitely one of her favorites!  Clementine loves her Starbucks - just like me!

  

Although it's going to be hard to leave this adorable face every morning, I can't wait to see the adorable faces of my new first grade students on August 22nd!

Field Trip To The Nature Center At Shaker Lakes

On Tuesday, our class took a field trip to The Nature Center At Shaker Lakes.  Thank you to Kati Daltorio, Beth Gillespie, and Justin Wold for braving the cold and chaperoning our field trip!

This was our second field trip to The Nature Center.  Once again, we were exploring the forest and marsh habitats.  We compared what they are like in the winter compared to the fall.  We will be back in the spring!