Today we were visited by some naughty but nice leprechauns.

They messed up our classroom, then ran outside and must have dropped their pots of gold, because there was gold everywhere!  The leprechauns also left us some clues about how to find some gold in our classroom–we are such great detectives, that it didn’t take long at all to track down the gold coins left by the naughty but nice little tricksters!  The kids had a great time searching for leprechauns and gold during their recess time today 🙂

Today was our day to “try out” the school cafeteria.  We had a lot of fun.  On the menu today:  pizza, refried bean dip with cheese & chips and tortellini  pasta.  Our little gourmet group were individuals, I don’t think a single one of them was influenced by what the classmates around them chose for their lunch.  They knew what they liked best  and they chose it!  We talked about how to open packages (raise your hand if you need help), how to walk through the lunchline and choose foods, how to make our trays (and us) fit at the table together, but most of all to eat and not talk.  At the beginning of  first grade, students have trouble getting all of their lunch eaten in the allotted cafeteria time.  We were there about 30 minutes today, which is how long the WHOLE lunch and recess period is.  If your child is a slow eater at the beginning of first grade, you might want to put off having them try school lunch for a little while as they get used to lunch & recess in first grade–unlike lunch from home, they can’t save their leftovers 🙂

Here is our bunch at lunch 🙂

Overall, they did a really good job of following directions and seemed to have fun doing it!

Special thanks to Mrs. Kennedy for coming along and helping us.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week has been a lot of fun celebrating the books of Dr. Seuss.  Today we celebrated by making Green Eggs & Ham in our class!  Each child cut up some ham and got to break an egg into the bowl, so much fun and so yucky touching those eggs!

Be sure to ask your child about today’s activity.   We were able to put our cooking under the projector, so that the children were able to watch as the green eggs & ham cooked.  So, while they were enjoying “Storytime with Mrs. Kennedy,” they were also watching, the “Cooking with Mrs. O’Neill Show.”