Community

Our theme at the beginning of the year is Community. We work hard to build a working classroom community that demonstrates the school's core values of sharing, trust, respect, responsibility and belonging. I read many books to the class about school, getting along with others and how to make and keep friends. After working together to build our classroom community, the class began to learn about Community Helpers. Our studies will include firefighters, garbage collectors, mail carriers, police officers, dentists, and construction workers. Each helper uses special tools and equipment. This week we spent some time learning about firefighters.

Today we had a visit from several of Hinesburg's volunteer fire department.  The firefighters talked to the first grade classes about fire safety and put on fire equipment including the noisy breathing masks.  Children were able to see how a firefighter might look in an emergency!  Afterward, each class was able to go outside and look inside a fire truck and see all of the equipment used by our firefighters.

Take a look at your children as they learned about fire safety!

Hard At Work!

The first few days are so busy and it's nice to take a minute to do some quiet seat work. Here you see kids working on the first day of school books that came home...after the first day! It turns out that to do high quality work, it takes a little more time! You'll also see children hard at work using math materials and writing some of their very first pieces of writing. Such serious faces...such concentration!

Back To School!

Here are some pictures from our first few days back at school! It's always exciting to start a new year! It was hot and sunny, but not too hot to spend some extra time on the playground! Look at those happy faces!