Grant Celebration Week part 2

Our week of fun continued with a cookout on Wednesday, thanks to PTA and Lakewood Kiwanis!

Thursday, we had our class walk to Malley's to wrap up our economics unit! Yum!

Today was our Field Day at Kauffman Park!  Thanks to all the hard work of Mrs. Lach and the volunteers, we had so much fun!!

This was a fun and crazy week! I can't believe we only have 2 weeks left in 1st grade!!

Grant School: Past, Present, Future

We have spent this week working on a video project exploring the past, present, and future of Grant School.

This was a 100% student produced video! They worked in groups to plan, record, and edit until we got our final product!

Thank you to the wonderful parent volunteers who helped facilitate the groups of students!

You can check out our video here! 

Please forgive our soft voices and shaky camera work! 

Grant Celebration Week part 1

I was going to wait until Friday to post all about our week... but there is just so much going on, I couldn't wait that long!

Since our beloved Grant School is closing for 2 years in order to be rebuilt, we have been celebrating the school and all our memories this week!

Monday we got to leave our handprints with Grant!  We painted our hands and put our prints throughout the hallway!  We even made a Grant School banner that we are going to take with us to our temporary school next year!  This way we will always have a part of Grant with us!

Tuesday, we left our mark on Grant with chalk!  We made pictures and wrote words all over the sidewalk in front of the building!

Then we hugged the building and sang songs!

And finally, we celebrated all our wonderful volunteers at the volunteer tea with a little song!

It has been a great week so far and I'm sure it will just keep getting better!

COSI on Wheels

What a day we had on Friday!!

We started with an all school assembly from COSI.  They presented about chemistry!

We worked together to conduct investigations to find COSI Super Slime!

Then the 1st grade classes were invited back to conduct our own chemistry experiments!

We even got to make our very own COSI Super Slime to bring home!!

 Thank you, PTA for bring COSI to Grant!!

Goodbye Miss Lipster!

Today was our Miss Lipster's last day in 1st grade!  We shared a lot of laughs... and a few tears throughout the day!

Miss Lipster LOVES Disney, so we watched her favorite movie The Lion King with her.

Then we surprised her with a party!!  She was SO surprised!!  We had to keep this a secret for weeks! But we did it!!

We ate delicious pizza and had pretzels and juice courtesy of Georgia's mom (THANK YOU!!).

Then Miss Lipster opened up her presents from us!  She was given so many wonderful supplies, she is all set for a classroom of her own!

 We also made her a customized clipboard...

 a book with lots of teaching advice from each of us...

and a signed picture of our class so that she would always remember us!

 Then Miss Lipster surprised us with a goody bag and a personal letter for each one of us!

And she brought in dessert!  Look how adorable these cookies are!!!

Finally, we said goodbye with a long hug line (and a few more tears!)

Goodbye Miss Lipster!  We are really going to miss you!!  Thank you for being such a fantastic teacher!!  We hope you come visit us soon!