H-E Countdown, End of the Year Video & Awards

This week was a short but busy week! We were busy finishing up assessments, continuing our End of the Year Countdown, and preparing for our video & awards.

In our countdown this week we went through the letters H-E. For H day on Tuesday, we learned how to say hello in 30 different languages. The students really enjoyed this and were repeating ones that they remembered all the way to the buses! 

 On Wednesday, for G day we had "Garrabrant's Scavenger Hunt". We hunted around the classroom for our classmates who liked various things. The students enjoyed getting to know more about their friends and filling out our "scavenger hunt" paper.

On Thursday, for F day we did finger painting! The students got to choose 2 of the primary colors to make a secondary color. They enjoyed getting to feel the paint on their fingers as they made a new color.

 Friday was our E day and we did a "walking water" experiment. We had 2 cups with different primary colors in them (red & blue). We put each side of the paper towel in the different colors and watched as the colors "walked" up the paper towel to make a new color. You can't tell very well from the picture but we made purple! The students really enjoyed our experiment.

 While we waited for our parents to arrive for our end of the year video & awards, we spent some time cooling off in the Hackett building, enjoyed some ice pops, and listened to some stories. I didn't take many pictures of the video & awards since I was up front the whole time but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who came to visit and have supported us throughout the year. It makes all of the hard work so worth it. I am sad to say good-bye to your precious children at the end of this coming week but I have enjoyed a great school year of learning with them! I hope you all enjoyed the video and awards celebration. Please come back to visit often!

Here is one of the many different awards.

A shot of the crowd, we had a great turnout! It means so much to have the support behind us!

 Have a great week! I can't believe I am saying this but this is the last week of school! Monday is Field Day so please make sure your child has sunscreen on before coming to school and wears/brings tennis shoes. 

Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant

Countdown M-I, Library, Performances, Etc.

We continued our End of the Year Alphabet Countdown with the letters M-I this week! Monday was M day so we made mustaches on a stick. After we made our mustaches together, more material was put in the art area for students to make their own mustaches. Below Braydon is showing off his mustache that he made. Betsy came to school ready for M day wearing a mustache, a mustache necklace, and a mustache shirt as well! 

For L day, the students wrote letters to their first grade teachers. They told them their name, how old they are, how excited they were to meet them, some of the things they wanted to learn about, and so much more. Take a look at some of their letters below.

Wednesday was K day and we did Karaoke! This was the day that the kids were looking forward to the most and they really enjoyed themselves. They got to choose if they wanted to sing with themselves, do a duet with another friend or sing with a group of three. After they chose their groups, they chose their songs and we found the video on the KidzBop. I only had two microphones so if they chose to be a group of three, they had to share the microphones. Some students chose to sing the words and some students chose to lip sync the words. I enjoyed watching them sing, dance and enjoy the music.

Thursday was J day and Mr. Doyle did a jump rope activity with the kids. We also had ice pops for I day on Friday before our poetry cafe but I forgot to get pictures!

We also took a walking field trip to the library this week. It started pouring down rain when we were almost at the library so that is why their hair is wet in the pictures! We started off our visit with a story read by Ms. Gina, the children's librarian at the West Carrollton Library. 

Then she gave us a tour to show us what we could find and where to find it at the library. The students were excited to learn that we could even find comic books!

Then they got to look through the shelves and pick one book that they found interesting.

Betsy was excited to find one of the sports books that we read during our sports study!

Ms. Gina let the students check out the books on her library card.

Half of the students went outside to the book drop and got to return their books.

The other half of the students were watching in the book drop room. They were so excited to watch the books come in and drop on the floor!

During literacy lab this week Mrs. Ball had lots of fun activities related to the Laura Numeroff book series. 

We also had the cub scouts leader come and talk to the boys about cub scouts.

Mrs. Springer brought her acapella group "First Impressions" to sing for the ECC students. They sang and danced and the students really enjoyed their performance.

Mrs. Gore's class learned 4 Reader's Theatre performances and shared them with us this week. Below are pictures from Little Red Riding Hood.

The mama duck's eggs hatched this week! Monday we got to see her sitting on the nest with the babies in it but on Tuesday, they were gone! The students were so sad to see her go but glad they got to see her and the babies. 

Check out our garden so far! Our peas & green beans are growing so fast and we hope to be able to taste some of them before the end of the school year!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant