Welcome Back!

Our first week as first graders has been full of incredible learning experiences. We all came back a little taller, a little smarter, and with a few less teeth. It is so fun to be reunited with our family! Summer is hard when you know that you will be back together soon. Here's a little bit of what we've been up to.

There are 66 new Kindergartners in our building and we've been showering Angela's class with love and presents. We've made candy necklaces and name puzzles for them, taught them our class song (Brown Bear, Brown Bear) and we ended their first week with one on one tours of the O.L.E. and created presentations of our favorite parts of the garden and the rules of the garden. Gatlin even got to help his Kindergarten friend out when the Kindergartner didn't want to go to class today. Gatlin took him by the hand, told him how much fun Kindergarten was, and then walked him into class. That's something that makes Carlson so special.

Us working with our Secret Pals in the garden











We've also been working on using science tools and exploring our world with scientific behavior. We learned that you have at least 5 science tools with you wherever you go...your 5 senses.

We learned to use all 5 senses like a scientist while exploring apples.




One of the most important things we worked on this week is adopting a tree outside our window. We will be charting the changes in our tree throughout the year and teaching the Kindergarten classes how to respect it and other parts of nature on the playground. We learned to see things as they really are and not just what we think they should look like. We saw that the leaves on our tree had lots of colors on them, not just green.