Ms. Miller's 1st Grade Class

❤️❤️The GREATEST gift is being the 1st grade teacher to this AMAZING group of students! I feel so blessed to spend my days with them at MAC! ❤️❤️

Special thanks to the sweet families that sent in a gift for me for the holidays! Your kindness & generosity are truly appreciated. I’m one BLESSED teacher! ❤️

It’s the MOST Wonderful time of the year! ❤️🎄

We had an AMAZING time celebrating the holidays and our last day together in 2022! We made holiday crafts, ate snacks, opened gifts, and simply enjoyed each other’s company! Mrs. Claus visited us and the class played a few games to pick 2 more ”Forever Books” (donated by Dawn Wright and Mrs. Massung).

It was a full day of FUN, good & fellowship!

December “Forever Books” went home today!! Students racked up with several new books to read over the holidays! Thanks to our December sponsors for gifting our class with these new books! ❤️📚

✨The Bonfil Family
✨Ginnie Chapman
✨Jen Meadows (a former student’s family)

We wrapped up our “Holiday Book Countdown” with our final book! Book # 1 was “If You Take a Mouse to the Movies”! Students were challenged to see how many events from the story matched events that took place throughout our final Friday together! ❤️🎄📚

Students participated in first grade holiday rotations today! They took turns visiting all 4 first grade classrooms and completed a holiday craft. Students had a great afternoon! ❤️🎄

Book #2 in our “Holiday Book Countdown” was “Olive the Other Reindeer”. This cute story was a little dog who helped save Christmas! ❤️🎄📚

My ❤️ is full!! Our class joined to spread love & kindness to children in the hospital this holiday season! Thanks to donations, students were able to select items to fill a bag for boys & girls in the pediatric unit of Lakeland Regional Health. Each bag contains a new blanket, coloring book & crayons, and a large & small toy to keep them entertained during their stay. Students decorated their bags and created get well cards to put inside. Bags were delivered this afternoon… just in time for the holidays! Our hope is to spread a little cheer to other children during a time of need.

✨Special thanks to our donors who donated items to this kindness project!
-The Coward Family
-The Pagan Family
-The Meisner Family
-Jenny Miller
-Nicole Taylor
-Natalie Albritton

💙This project was dedicated to the memory of my former first grader, Henri, who passed away from leukemia. This February will be his 10th anniversary gone. His memory lives on! 💙

It’s Book #3 in our “Holiday Book Countdown” and we read ”The Florida Night Before Christmas”! Students loved seeing all the Florida touches in the special story! ❤️🎄📚

🎄First Grade Field Trip🎄
Today we got to visit the Lakeland Theatre and watch the play “Rudolph”. Afterwards, we enjoyed a picnic lunch and some playtime at Barnett Park!

Thank you to our HOUSE LEADERS for stopping by today and reading us a holiday story! Our class loved it! ❤️📚🎄

“I See Santa Everywhere” was book #4 in our “Holiday Book Countdown”! This story showed how Santa used different disguises to keep a watchful eye our main character! ❤️🎄🎅📚

Book #5 in our “Holiday Book Countdown” was called ”Santa’s Stuck”. This cute story focused on sequence and how animals worked together to help Santa get back up the chimney! ❤️🎄📚

❤️ HOUSE DAY! ❤️
Students did an AWESOME job representing the ALTRUIST house during house games today! Loved seeing all the RED to show their house pride! Even JACK earned us a house point for dressing in RED! ❤️

“Merry Christmas, Splat!” was Book #6 in our “Holiday Book Countdown”. Students were able to describe the characters, setting, and sequence of events! ❤️📚🎄

🎉 Happy Birthday to US! 🎉
I had a great day celebrating my special day with my birthday twin! In 16 years of teaching, this is the first time I’ve shared my actual birthday with a student! Thanks to my families for making today great!

Today was Book #7 in our ”Holiday Book Countdown”! In this adorable story, students learned a lesson about doing the right thing when given a hard choice! They saw what happened when Norman made a good choice that saved Christmas! ❤️🎄

THANKS to MAC PTO for the early birthday surprise! I truly appreciate your kindness & generosity! ❤️

“OH SNAP”…. Grandma got ran over by a reindeer!! Be sure to come see us the next 2 mornings and purchase a candy cane gram to support 1st grade! We’re in the gym before school starts! ❤️🎄

Book #8 in our “Holiday Book Countdown”! 🎄📚❤️ Students enjoyed this story that focused on the sequence of events as animals helped each other get down the chimney to decorate for Christmas!

We squeezed in Book #9 in our “Holiday Book Countdown” today before we headed out on our field trip! Today’s story brought us lots of rhyming and the reminder of the importance of focusing on time with those you love during the holidays instead all the ”other things”! ❤️🎄📚

Field Trip FUN at Grace Manor Nursinf Home & Barnett Park! Students sang Christmas songs to the patients and delivered handmade Christmas cards to brighten their spirits! We then walked to the park for a picnic lunch and fun on the playground! It was a GREAT Day! ❤️🎄

Ms. Miller & Mrs. Fry were this morning at the candy cane table! Just a reminder that we’ll be in the gym every morning this week selling candy cane grams to support first grade! ❤️🎄

THANK YOU to our sweet families for purchasing items from our Amazon Wish List or sending in items for our holiday crafts! Students are excited to start working on our crafts/family gifts! 🎄❤️

It’s Day 10 in our “Holiday Book Countdown”! 📚🎄 In today’s story, Santa was looking for help with making all the toys. After trying out a variety of interesting characters, he finally discovered elves were the perfect solution to solve his problem!

There’s 1️⃣1️⃣ school days until Christmas break & Jack brought us a special gift… a Santa Cam! We also opened up book #11 in our ’Holiday Book Countdown’. Today’s book was “Get Well, Santa!” This book was the perfect read aloud to go along with our hospital room transformation!

Is Oobleck a solid or a liquid?? We wrapped up our matter unit today with a hands-on MESSY science experiment! Students listened to the story “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” by Dr Seuss and made predictions on what they thought Oobleck was. We worked together to make it and then students explored this mysterious substance! Students concluded that Oobleck is both a solid & a liquid!

🏥 Operation Unknown Number 🏥
Students arrived today to find our classroom had been transformed into an operating room. Students became doctors as they worked together to solve for the missing numbers in equations. Students had to decide whether to add or subtract to find the missing part or whole. Then, they found the correct answer on bandaids and placed them on their patients.

🎄 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄
We welcomed the 1st day of December with a little holiday cheer to help us get in the spirit of the season! We even received a special delivery early this morning… a cold package straight from the North Pole! Students were excited to learn that our class elf named Jack will be spending the next 12 days with us! He’s looking for acts of kindness and best choices from all!

Today we started one of my favorite holiday traditions… it’s our “12 Books of Christmas” countdown! Each day, we’ll randomly select a student to unwrap a holiday book that we will read that day. Students will describe the characters, setting, and major events in each story! 🎄🎅

Book #12 was “Are You Grumpy, Santa?” Students learned that when you do nice things for others, the grumpiness can disappear! ❤️

We conducted a few experiments today in science to explore solids, liquids, and gas! We made predictions, observed mixtures and the reactions they created, and determined if solid objects would sink or float when placed in water! These little scientists were busy today! 👩🏻‍🔬 👨🏽‍🔬

Students took home another “Forever Book” just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays! Special thanks to Dawn Wright for being our November book sponsor! ❤️📚

Did someone say… ICE CREAM!?! 🍨
Today, students embarked on a mystery science experiment! All they knew was that it was edible! They watched how matter can change to a different state as they shook their bags and made homemade ice cream!! They LOVED it!

Today we had a fun edible science lab to review the states of matter! Students made predictions and observed a solod, liquid, and gas as we created root beer floats! 🍨

On Friday, we had fun reviewing greater than, less than, or equal to in math! Students took turns rolling dice to compare numbers! Then, they paired up for a friendly game of war where they used 🐊 to demonstrate >,

In honor of , students took home their November “Forever Books” on Friday. ❤️📚 This month’s sponsor is Tamara Letter, author of the book “A Passion For Kindness”. Tamara sponsored this month as part of her mission to do 50 acts of kindness in honor of her 50th birthday! The book she gifted our class was perfect to support her !

✨Fun Fact: Tamara included my former 1st grade class I’m her book! We met through a !

In honor of on Sunday, November 13th, our class joined up with our Altruist buddies in Mrs. Kindle’s 3rd grade class to carry out a special KINDNESS mission this morning! Students created notes of gratitude and filled treat bags to deliver to every staff member at MAC!! It was a great way to start our Friday! ❤️❤️

Special THANKS to Citizens Bank & Trust in Auburndale for donating the bags and teacher supplies. Also, THANKS to the families who sent in treats to fill the bags! Students had a blast working on this KINDNESS project!

🧲 Magnet Stations! 🧲
We’ve been learning about force and motion in science. Students have talked about examples of objects that you push and pull. Today we observed how magnets can both attract and repel depending on their poles.

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
Students had a fun-filled day of learning!