Dear Parents,

It has been awhile! I apologize for the delay in getting a new blog or two, to you! 

A few weeks ago my parents were in town and the firsties had a “mystery guest reader” (my dad!).  He read a story to them about “Mother’s Day” (which I know might not make complete sense, but it WAS the day after Mother’s Day).  He is a retired first and second grade teacher, so he loved being here with the firsties! 

Last week our story from our hard-covered reading book, was one of my favorites titled “The Dot”.  It is about an art teacher and one of her students who doesn’t think she is a very good artist.  But in the story, she is encouraged to TRY and ends up creating some really neat pieces of Art.  The firsties created their own Dot pictures!  Check em' out!

The bean seeds/sprouts are coming home today (And if you are curious as to what kind of bean seeds they are, they are Great Northern beans)!  This was a fun experiment!   Turns out that some firsties really do have a greenTHUMB! If you DO end up planting the seeds, please take pictures and send them to me…thank you!

Today we played “Shape Sudoku”.  Boys verses the Girls.  It was SO FUN!  They couldn’t believe that that was our Math for today!  Ha!

We, collectively as a staff, have decided to take a year off of the Trinity Community Garden.  We will NOT be planting anything this year.  I am looking forward to next year, though, and what we will plant.  

Have a wonderful and safe LONG weekend!

Miss Gallagher