Farewell First Grade

I am going to miss my first graders at Old Bonhomme sooooo much!  We really enjoyed our time learning and playing together.  We had an incredible year! Please click on our video below to see some highlights of our year. 💗 

Continue to SOAR and do great things, O.B. Eagles!  

First Grade Summer Learning Activities

Students are encouraged to continue their learning this summer!  Tried to put everything in one place so that you don't have to go searching for online codes. Feel free to reach out to me this summer with any questions that you have or help you might need.

Final Week of First Grade

What an amazing farewell parade!  

Mrs. Schreiner and Miss Layton's hearts were very full on Friday and continue to remain full from this wonderful experience!  💗

Here are the plans for this week: 

Final Week Plans for First Grade

The zoom meeting links will be coming to your email.  

Our final class zoom is Wednesday, May 20 at 1:00 p.m. We look forward to a fun final time together.

Click here for a fun farewell staff bitmoji video! 

Week 8 of E Learning

We are nearing the end of our time together in first grade.  It is going to be hard for Miss Layton and I to say Good-bye to this group of students.  We have had a great time at school together, and we are so proud of the effort of families to continue our learning together during the stay at home order. 

You rose to the occasion, 1S!  You continued to work hard, and we want to celebrate with you. On Friday, we will finish up with a parade of students at Stacy Park.  We hope you will join us!  

Kindergarten: 9:30 a.m.

First Grade: 10:00 a.m.

Second Grade: 10:30 a.m.

Third Grade: 11:00 a.m.

Fourth Grade: 11:30 a.m. 

(Rain date will be 5/18-same schedule)

First Grade Plans May 11-15

OB Specialists Bingo Board

Happy Mother's Day to all of our wonderful moms!  We love you! 💗

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Week 7 of E Learning and Flipgrid Friday

My kids' two guinea pigs, Sugar and Spice were special guests on our class zoom meeting this week.  It was interesting to compare and contrast pigs with guinea pigs and then see the actual guinea pigs.

Here is a photo of the guinea pigs when they were babies two and a half years ago! 

We love watching the class flip-grid videos. This week's flip-grid is brought to us by our student teacher, Miss Layton.

Click here to watch and respond to the video.  Here is the QR code:

Here are this week's plans for First Grade: 

First Grade Plans May 4-May 8

OB Specialists Bingo Board

If your child needs any assistance with the math, here are a few sources that can help. 

Math Videos


If your student is finishing all of the day's work in less than the recommended time, please remember to access our Optional E-learning tab and the Read-Aloud tab (above) for extra learning opportunities.

Week 6 of E Learning and Flipgrid Friday

We had a wonderful time integrating art and movement with our nonfiction text this week. Mrs. Roth and Coach Jander collaborated with us on Zoom. As you can see from the photo, Coach Jander had us up and moving! 

Mrs. Roth had our creative juices flowing as we created cityscapes with urban animals! We would love to see your final products. Please email them to Mrs. Roth or Mrs. Schreiner.  Thank you for the great participation!

This week's flip-grid is brought to us by our student teacher, Miss Layton.

Click here to watch and respond to the video.  Here is the QR code:

Here are this week's plans for First Grade: 

First Grade Plans April 27- May 1

OB Specialists Bingo Board

If your child needs any assistance with the math, here are a few sources that can help: 
Subtraction without Regrouping-Mrs. Schreiner
Subtraction without Regrouping- Matholia

Subtraction with Regrouping- Mrs. Schreiner
Subtraction with Regrouping- Matholia

If your student is finishing all of the day's work in less than the recommended time, please remember to access our Optional E-learning tab and the Read-Aloud tab (above) for extra learning opportunities.

Week 5 of E Learning and Flipgrid Friday

It was so great to connect with you on Zoom this week, 1S! Wasn't Miss Layton's read aloud so fun?  Don't forget to access Flipgrid to upload a portrait/model of your pet or stuffed animal to share! 

Click here to watch and respond to the video.  Here is the QR code:

Here are this week's plans for First Grade: 

First Grade Plans April 20-24

OB Specialists Bingo Board

If your child needs any assistance with the math, here are a few sources that can help: 

Two Digit Addition without Regrouping

Two Digit Addition with Regrouping

Week 4 of E Learning and Flipgrid Friday

Welcome to Week 4 of E Learning! 

You are doing a fantastic job, 1S!  All of this hard work is going to pay off! This week is a Fiction week for reading and writing!  It's going to be so fun.  We are going to read a fiction book daily and complete a task to go with the text.  

RAZ Kids and Epic are both great resources for fiction books. If you are looking for more fiction books, check out our Read Aloud tab at the top of the blog.  There are some fun options on there that you can read and respond to as well.

This week's Flipgrid activity is brought to us by our student teacher, Miss Layton!  Miss Layton would like to know what your favorite activity has been during our distance learning time. Please watch the video and share with us. 

Click here to watch and respond to the video.  Here is the QR code:

Here are this week's plans for First Grade: 

First Grade Plans April 13-17

OB Specialists Bingo Board

If your child needs any assistance with the math, here are a few sources that can help: 

Telling Time:

Telling Time to the Hour
The Hands on a Clock- Time to the Hour

Time to the Half Hour: 

Telling Time to the Half Hour
The Hands on a Clock- Telling Time the Half Hour

As always if you need help or any questions answered, please reach out to us.  We are here for you. 

Week 3 of E Learning and Flipgrid Friday

Welcome to Week 3 of E Learning! 

We have been impressed with the commitment we are seeing from families to have a daily schedule each day.  This week is a Nonfiction week for reading and writing, so the assignments look a little different.  Students will read a nonfiction book daily and will complete a task to go with the text.  

RAZ Kids and Epic are both great resources for nonfiction books. If you are looking for more nonfiction books, check out our Read Aloud tab at the top of the blog.  There are options there as well. 

This week's Flipgrid activity is brought to us by our student teacher, Miss Layton!  Miss Layton's focus is nonfiction: Women Who Launched the Computer Age, and she has a question for you to respond to on Part 2. This is a great nonfiction topic for our distance learning with technology. 

Click here for Part 1 and click here for Part 2.  You only have to respond to Part 2.  Here are the QR codes for each: 

Here are this week's plans for First Grade: 

First Grade Plans April 6-10

OB Specialists Bingo Board

If your child needs any assistance with the math, here are a few sources that can help: 

Numbers to 120: 

Grouping Tens & Ones to Count

Place Value Tens and Ones

Comparing, Ordering and Patterns: 

Comparing Numbers

As always if you need help or any questions answered, please reach out to us.  We are here for you. 

Week 2 of E Learning & Flipgrid Friday

Keep up the great work with your E learning, 1S!  So proud of the effort that you all are making to continue to work on your academic skills at your homes. 

We have a new tab on the blog with Read Alouds and activities to go with each book. Read Alouds are important for many reasons: increase attention span, enhance language development, improve  comprehension, encourage imagination, and foster a life-long interest in reading. 

Do you remember making a Flipgrid on the I-Pad in the classroom?  We are going to have Flipgrid Fridays, where we can respond and share ideas. 

If you have an I-pad, you can download the Flipgrid app.  If you have a computer or other device, simply click here.

Don't forget to enter this code:  2e5f072a           

You can also use this QR code to get there: 

Try it!  It will be super fun! 

Here are this week's plans for First Grade:

First Grade Plans March 30-April 3 

OB Specialsts BINGO Board

If you would like to complete some other activities, please check the Optional E Learning tab and the Read Aloud tabs on our blog. 

Week 1 of E Learning March 25-27

Hello 1S Families, 

We have missed you so much! We wish that we could begin our learning after Spring Break in person, but we get to try something exciting and new for a little while, E learning!  Might be exciting and fun to learn from our homes for a little while.  Take it day by day, and let's have fun with this! Please let us know if you have any questions along the way. we are here for you.  

Here are this week's plans for First Grade.  

First Grade Weekly Plans March 25-27

OB Specialists BINGO Board

If you would like to complete some other activities, please check the Optional E Learning tab on our Blog.  

Stay tuned, and check back on the blog on Friday morning! We've got a fun video activity planned where we get to see each other!

Putting on a Show with Light and Sound

During the 3rd quarter, students created a shadow puppet show by engineering a musical instrument out of recycled materials and making shadow puppets. 

Before building the instruments students learned that sounds are made of vibrations and sound can cause materials to vibrate. 

Students experimented with different instruments like rulers, palm pipes, and kazoos to learn about different types of pitch and rhythm that you can make with sound. 

Students experimented with vibrations through a rope simulation. 

Students went to our outdoor sound garden to experiment with recycled instruments.

Finally, students were ready to create their instruments out of recycled materials that they brought from home. 

After the instruments were created, it was time to learn about light.  Students learned about light source, light blocker, and a surface needed to create shadows.  They experimented with light and shadows.  Then they got ready to put on the shadow puppet show. 

After practices and trying out our shadows and instruments, we were ready to put on a show with light and sound! 

We really enjoyed this science unit!

We Are Americans

During the third quarter, students learned about the various aspects and features of being an American. As a culminating activity, students created what they felt would be a good American symbol.  

Students had to create a symbol and then share with the class the reasons they thought it would be a good American symbol.

Students learned about famous Black Americans and created a display honoring, the Greensboro Four at our Living Museum in the Old Bonhomme Library.  

The Greensboro Four were college freshmen, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond at North Carolina A & T State University. These young men decided to take a stand against segregation laws in the South. They agreed to sit together at a lunch counter at Woolworth's, a popular store and restaurant in the area and asked to be served.

The men started the lunch counter sit-ins in the South. More students joined the demonstration each day. Students in other North Carolina cities started their own sit-ins. The peaceful protests soon spread to other states in the South. The Greensboro Woolworth’s finally began serving members of the black community at its lunch counter on July 25, 1960, six months after the sit-in began.

The students made a replica of the lunch counter that the four college freshmen would have sat at during the sit-in at Woolworth's.  

They also made protest signs that had the same messages that people had on their protest signs outside of the restaurant during the sit-in. 

Students created drawings of the event and wrote about the Greensboro Four.

Learning about the Greensboro Four was humbling and inspiring.