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!)
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!
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!
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!
We read the book Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace by James Promios.
We talked about the seven year old boy in the book and the actions he
took that made a difference in the lives of the people in his
community. Then, we brainstormed actions we could take to make a
difference in our community and decided to organize a food drive.
I also shared the following video from Kid President with the students:
I think it is important for the students to
understand that even six and seven year olds can do things that will
make a difference!
Together with the other first grade classes, we wrote a letter to the
students and the staff at Boulevard School asking for their help with
this project.
We also made posters to "advertise"our food drive and hung them up around Boulevard School.
On Friday afternoon, we organized, counted, and boxed/bagged all of the donated food.
Thank you to all of the families who participated in our food drive!
Because of the generosity of the families and staff of Boulevard School,
we were able to donate 451 cans, boxes, and packages of food to needy families in our community in time for Thanksgiving!
On Wednesday, our class took a field trip to the Woodbury Science Lab.
Thank you to Alison Bradford, Nicol Coxon, and Dipendra Shrestha for chaperoning!
There, the students were introduced to the scientific method by conducting an experiment to figure out how many drops of three different liquids (water, oil, or vinegar) could fit on a single penny.
