by Mrs. Nerkizian | Oct 18, 2013 | Character Education
The word of the month is courage. Courage means to be brave even when you're afraid. We read the story Wemberly Worried. Wemberly is afraid of lots of things until she meets a friend named Jewel. We talked about different times and places where...
by Mrs. Nerkizian | Oct 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday we had a visit from the Blauvelt, Orangeburg, and Tappan fire departments. We went outside and went to the first fire truck from the Blauvelt Fire Department. There were three firefighters. They talked to us about fire safety. We...
by Mrs. Nerkizian | Oct 11, 2013 | 21st Century Thinking, Holidays, Social Studies
Monday, October 14th is Columbus Day. It is a national holiday to celebrate Christopher Columbus and his arrival to the new world. Before we started working, the children were asked to think about their preference about working on tasks. They were...
by Mrs. Nerkizian | Oct 7, 2013 | 21st Century Thinking, Collaboration
Off the top of your head, how many things can you think of that are red? The same question and challenge was posed to the children last week as the gateway to an ongoing activity to facilitate their discovery of how people successfully with...
by Mrs. Nerkizian | Oct 7, 2013 | Writer's Workshop
Congratulations to our new class representatives for Student Government! They will attend monthly first grade student government meetings for the first half of the year. Then 2 new representatives will be chosen for the second half of the year. ...
