Junie B. Jones Musical

The Junie B. Jones Musical was a hysterical hit this morning!  The Wellman Elementary students were great audience members as they laughed their way through the hilarious tendencies of Junie B.  Many thanks to the company of Wal-Mart and our PTO that allowed our entire school to enjoy such a spectacular show!  Ask your little one about his/her favorite part!!

An excited bunch!!!

The stage looks ready!!

Wellman Elementary students taking their seats before the show!

 A thank you to the cast members!!

Herbert Hoover Museum Visit!

Today the first grade classes traveled to West Branch to enjoy the Herbert Hoover museum's annual holiday display highlighting Christmas trees from the works of William Shakespeare.  The students were able to view ornately decorated trees based upon the plays of Shakespeare, enjoy a Christmas cartoon and listen to holiday stories about the Laura Ingalls Wilder family. Thanks to the staff and volunteers of the museum for hosting our busy bunch today!

 Students enjoying a read aloud.

 Taking in the beautiful trees!

 

That's one happy bunch!

Grandparent's Day

Thanks again to all of our special visitors for making Grandparent's Day an extra special day! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Here are visitors in the 1A classroom:

Here are the visitors in the 1B classroom:

Native American Games!

Pam Holz, our Washington County Conservationist visited our classroom yesterday to show students that you can have lots of fun without much equipment during the Thanksgiving season.  Students enjoyed playing 3 different Native American games: Wood Gatherers, Pebble Drop and One Pebble Game.  Students were challenged in their patience and cleverness to win these games.  These fun games tied in well with our Social Studies work as first graders have been learning about the First Thanksgiving and how young pilgrim and Native American boys and girls were creative in making up games.

Students playing pebble drop-it is definitely harder than it looks!:)

Pam working with a student on One Pebble Game!

The Wood Gatherer game!

First Graders worked hard to try and capture the firewood!

A student being sneaky!