Students are learning math through hands on play! 🧩Dominos, puzzles, Jenga, and counting cubes help these young bulldogs build a deep understanding of addition and subtraction! ➕➖ #firstgrademath #firstgrade #mathcenters

Who invented the alphabet? from @MysterySci brought together Fundations AND science today!☀️🔡After watching this video and studying each alphabet letter, students created beautiful alphabet window art for our classroom! 🟪🟩🟦 #firstgrade #science #firstgradephonics

Teamwork makes the (math) dream work! 🤝Students are adding during the vertical learning portion of our math block! Assigning roles, communicating, and working together toward a common goal! ➕➖😁😄😃 #firstgrade #firstgrademath

Wonderful Back to School Night! 🏫📝So great to show families how our classroom runs and all we will learn this year! 🚂 @S5_Belleville

Week 1 of ELA centers 🔡 A multi sensory experience with the alphabet and our friends names. Students worked in sensory bins, used play doh, and worked together to build alphabet letters and the names of our classmates! 🫘🧤 #firstgrade #elacenters

Starting the year with a #growthmindset 📈🧠 Students set goals for themselves to learn things they don’t know YET like reading, riding a scooter, reading a clock, and doing cartwheels 📖🛴🕐🤸 #firstgrade

BEYOND excited for the new school year! 🍎✏️Getting ready to meet a new group of first grade learners and watch them blossom this year! 🐶 @S5_Belleville #firstgrade

Summer STEAM Experiment 😎🐟 After reading The Rainbow Fish and following a directed drawing, students experimented with markers, tin foil, and water to create their own rainbow fish! 🌈🐠 #firstgrade

Bulldog Character Garden 🪴 TAG students designed pavers featuring words that describe what it means to be a Bulldog! 🐶🐾 They described our shared values and positive traits that make our school community strong! 💙💛@S5_Belleville @Nicole_Shanklin

STEAM building challenge! ⚠️Students were given specific amounts of materials and 30 minutes to build anything they could think of!🛠️ Their imaginations and creations were un-BUILD-evable! 🚧 #firstgrade #stemchallenge

The great coin race! 🪙 Students worked together in teams as they raced to match US coins. 💵Sportsmanship and learning were on full display! 🤝 #firstgrade #firstgrademath

ELA centers for the win! Students are working on differentiated centers including: short and long vowel identification, CVCe reading, trick words reading, and CVC decoding! 🧚🌟 Magic E makes the vowel say its name! 🔡 #firstgrade #elacenters

Thank you Belleville firefighters for your bravery fighting the fire! 🚒 K-2 students wrote thank you cards to our courageous community heroes! 🧑‍🚒👩‍🚒👨‍🚒 @S5_Belleville @belleville_ps

First Grade Fraction Fun! Hands on learning is the best way to bring abstract math concepts to life! 🍕 Students created pizzas to serve to their customers and used playdoh to demonstrate halves and fourths 🟡 #firstgrade #mathinstruction

First grade is GLOWING with knowledge! 💡Students are showing all they learned in first grade 🌟We read a glow stick story, read decodable words, and wrote about how they glow! Students had a blast reading with their glow sticks ✨ @S5_Belleville #firstgrade

TAG Chess Competition!♟️Belleville excellence was on display as students from all elementary schools competed in a round robin style chess competition👏Our own School 5 player won the fourth grade bracket and had the highest win count of the day! @Nicole_Shanklin @belleville_ps

First grade is celebrating Earth Day! 🌎 Connecting science to ELA, students planted flowers, discussed their life cycle, and talked about Georgia O’ Keeffe facts. 🌹🌺🌷 Let’s watch them grow!!! #firstgrade #spring @S5_Belleville

We compiled our research and masterpieces to create our Georgia O’ Keeffe final projects!! 💐🌷Students brought in their own nature to view like Georgia O’ Keeffe and used oil pastels to create their own pictures!🖍️🍃🪾🌸🌺 #firstgrade

District Family Math Night was a hit! 💯 Kids loved using cars and uno cards to subtract! 🏎️ It was so great to see Belleville families come out and have a great time with hands on math games! 🚙 🔢 @belleville_ps