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A special thank you to the ASU Football 🏈 and Basketball 🏀 team for spending time with First Grade students at recess today.
Station time! Students in Mrs. Herget's class love using a phone to take & write down food orders in our writing station. They also enjoy alphabet puzzles, iPad time, reading books, & using pattern blocks to create objects. Cooperative learning is so fun!
Mrs. Black's class did a nursery rhyme activity called "count & write the room!"
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Students getting Eagle bucks to trade in for treats at the office. Students can earn Eagle bucks at various places in the school building for following Eagle Expectations.
Students of the month for August
Mrs. Hanna Maxwell's class worked on an activity with tricky words today.
Reading Buddies in Mrs. Stricker's Class
Mrs. Lisa’s class using watercolor paint to paint umbrellas for Nursery Rhymes:
Rain, Rain Go Away & It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.
Mrs. Black’s class is having so much fun this Friday working on our alphabet arches 💚💛
Ready to cheer on the Eagles 🦅
Mrs. Herget's Class 💚💛
Today we created compound words by playing a version of the game “duck, duck, goose.”Students put the whole word together instead of saying goose.
Congratulations to Mrs. Lisa Brown
on being selected as Ballards Flower’s Teacher of the Week.
GCT Parents/Guardians: Remember to fill out the free/reduced lunch form at https://gctsd.rocketscanapps.com/. If your your child qualifies for free or reduced lunch this school year, your child will eat for free. You must fill out the application to qualify.
Mrs. Elizabeth’s Class using Elkonin Boxes, to match, one to one, sounds
A special thanks to Nabholz Construction for showing some of the Kindergarten classes how the concrete truck works!
Mrs. Gray's class made artwork "stain glass" windows with long vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines.
Congratulations to Gina Bayird and Mary Carter (not pictured) for being nominated by their peers as August staff member of the month!
Students in Mrs. McMillon's first grade class made partners of 10 using large playing cards.
Mrs. Rebecca’s 1st graders took turns explaining how they solved the math word problem.
