Collaborative learning 🧠 Students reviewed digraphs by taking a trip around the room building words with digraphs. 🔨 Students got creative and made real words and nonsense words! #digraphs #firstgrade #Collaboration

An incredible Family Reading Night! 📖Students loved reading a fun Halloween story and giving their ghost a costume! 👻 Thank you @MrsMoschella for a spooky and wonderful night! @S5_Belleville @Dr_Alfonso17 #reading #firstgrade

Amazing @hand2mind PD today! 🧲We were given a great demonstration by Ms. Debbie on how to incorporate brand new, hands-on manipulatives for our small group instruction! 🤗 Students loved the magnetic wands and phoneme phones 📞 @missmacbps @Nicole_Shanklin

Happy trunk-or-treat! 🇮🇹 The Smart Slice pizzeria was open for business 🍕So fun and spooky seeing everyone in their costumes enjoying the School 5 community 🍭 Kids loved picking through the spaghetti to find a lollipop! Have a safe and happy Halloween! 🎃 @S5_Belleville

Today we worked on math facts with Bluey! 🐶 Students used their favorite math strategy to find the sum and create flash cards they can take home and practice. 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫At home, students get to be a teacher and teach their siblings and parents some math facts 🧠 #firstgrademath

Center work! 🧠Students are working in hands-on centers to practice reading and building their CVC and CVC nonsense words. 🔍Matching words and pictures, popping nonsense words, middle vowel substitution, and nonsense word identification! 👌📖 #firstgrade #readingcenters

Spooky Spiders! 🕷️ Students are mastering their part-part-whole skills with the help of some crawling friends! 🕸️ Students used purple and orange legs to represent the parts that made up the whole of 8! #firstgrade #firstgrademath #mathcraft

Interactive small group journals are in full swing!📓 our journals are a place to store all our small group learning throughout the year! 📝 This week we focused on deconstructing CVC words to their smallest part 🦺🔨 #firstgrade #phonics #phonicsinstruction

Using our part-part-whole mats to build our math fluency and understand the equal sign! 🧠Part + part = whole 💡 Stufents worked together to create equations for each other to solve using uno cards! #firstgrade #math #firstgrademath

Adding in tens frames! Students are PUMP-ed to work on their fact fluency with our fall pumpkin manipulatives! 🎃 #factfluency #firstgrade #firstgrademath

Sound Wall is up and ready for a great year of learning! 👄📚My Fundations Drill Leaders have had a blast pointing to the different sound cards as they lead the class! @missmacbps

Enjoy our first edition of the 2025-2026 Bulldogs Newsletter! https://t.co/PuGO7ZwRD5

We had an AMAZING first day of first grade! My theme this year is circus because we all have different skills and abilities that makes our class unique! ❤️💛 Very excited for the year to come! @belleville_ps

Closed out the year with Jeopardy Day! 🛎️ Students worked in teams to answer questions from the entirety of their time in first grade! 🍉

Summer Bucket List 🪣☀️We read a summer story and discussed what we wanted to do this summer before making summer bucket lists! #firstgrade #summer

GLOW DAY 🌟 with @MysterySci “How do things glow in the dark?” We did our science investigation then used our glow sticks to practice shapes ⭕️ during our brain break! Next, we tapped out review words and completed a digital escape room in math 🔐 Great way to end the year!

What a fun FUN Day @S5_Belleville filled with games, snacks, and activities! ☀️🏈🎨🧃

What a HOT- Field Day,Fun Day- Friday!!!

We read 100 BOOKS!! 📚 Students practiced reading a book at home and then read to a teacher when they became a “fluency expert”! 📖 To celebrate, we had a full day of activities, coloring, and a special movie to wrap it up! 🎥 Great job readers!! 🍿#reading #firstgrade

What an amazing Computer Science Night @belleville_ps 💻 Students used their tentative coding skills to program a sprite on Scratch! They used blocks of code to make the sprite talk, walk, spin, and more! They blew me away! Fantastic night! 👏