Celebrating Our Learning

"Celebrations of learning are more than a display of student work and more than a party at the end of the year. The events compel students to reflect on and articulate what they have learned, how they learned, questions they answered, research they conducted, and areas of strength and struggles. They are powerful opportunities to make learning public." ~EL Education

What a wonderful experience to see first graders share their learning.  Students were so excited to share all they had learned through our learning expedition, "The World is our Garden".

Thank you to all the families who came to learn all about our garden and the organisms that help them thrive.

Thank you for a great year of learning, growing and celebrating.


I can share my learning with eye contact and a level 4 voice.
I can teach my community actions to save the bees.

Fox Trot

Students ran hard and fast for our annual fun run, Fox Trot. This year we are raising money for our amazing learning expeditions.

Learning expeditions are a fantastic way that we integrate science, social studies and ELA (English Language Arts) into engaging units. Students are involved in field work where they go out into the community to learn.  Students have opportunities to do hands on work and learn in the field.  In addition, experts come to talk about their daily work, answer questions and give feedback.

This past fall in first grade, we had the opportunity to have an expert oral story teller teach all about the job of story telling, the parts of a story and how to make stories engaging.  From there, first graders traveled to a local retirement home to tell a "grand friend's" story after interviewing and revising a story of a personal from an older generation.

Currently, we are involved in our 2nd learning expedition, where we have had the opportunity to learn from a local native bee expert from The Bee's Waggle.  In addition, we are traveling to Hudson Gardens to do field work.  Students researched and learned all about soil and earthworms.  From there, students learned all about plants.  From there, students collaborated to become garden organism experts.  We will be wrapping up with a celebration of learning all about how to save our most efficient pollinator....the native bee!

Students were challenged to help raise $100 per crew member to help with our $50,000 all school goal.  After all of our hard work collecting pledges and running, we enjoyed a yummy popsicle thanks to our friends and sponsor at Manic Training.

We ended our healthy time, we the annual "signing of the shirts".  This was a time when students gave shout outs on lap completion, perseverance and autographed shirts to remember our healthy day.