The first graders had a wonderful time yesterday celebrating their learning with their families at our trimester celebration! It was an afternoon full of hands-on

Clothing Drive for Sammy’s Window: November 10–14th Join The Early Learners in supporting Sammy’s Window, a local organization that helps lessen the financial strain for foster and adoptive

Today is Election Day in the United States and in the first grade classroom! Although there is no primary or presidential election this year, every

First graders had an amazing trip on Thursday to the Springfield Sanitary Landfill and Franklin Ave Recycling Center. We learned so much about how trash

To kick off our October author study of Peter Brown, we began doing a book study of three books: Creepy Carrots!, Creepy Crayon! and Creepy Pair of Underwear!;

This week, our first graders took part in a fun writing experience! As part of our author study on Peter Brown, we read The Creepy

Last week in Outdoor Education students continued their journey of becoming naturalists. The focus of the week was ‘restore’. Students participated in restoring the native

First graders recently had a very special visitor—Leif, the therapy dog! Leif came to our classroom with his owner, Dr. Aaron Jones, who is our

This week in first grade, we explored something special about a tricky letter pair — TH! These readers and writers learned that “TH” can actually

Last week was Ravens Reach Out Day! Our class joined kindergarten to take a service field trip to the Watershed Center, where students had the