As Spring Break gets closer, many parents begin thinking ahead and planning for ways that they can help their children avoid the "summer slide." After March conferences, I've received a few inquiries about summer tutoring -- and I am happy to provide it!
I typically tutor 1-2 days per week, in my classroom, each summer and incorporate lots of outdoor activities, technology, and non-traditional teaching strategies. It's just as fun for me as it is for the kiddos!
If you are interested in making a plan for maintaining your son/daughter's incredible 1st grade growth over the summer, please shoot me a quick email and I will be in touch soon!
Thanks!
-Mrs. Nelson
We have been having a great time in the Frog Room creating some very fun and interesting poems! On Tuesday, we used all of our senses to write popcorn poetry! We were inspired as we watched the popcorn pop and smelled the delicious aroma. Then, of course, we munched and crunched as we wrote our imaginative popcorn poems! Here's a few pictures of the students hard at work!
Friday was the kickoff for March Impact Month at New Groningen. For the entire month of March, the students and staff will be focused on finding ways that they can serve people both locally and globally. You should have received a postcard and explanation in your child's folder on Friday, but you can also read about it in the summary below: I have been so touched, encouraged, and inspired by the efforts of the students and the staff for the past 2 years that March Impact Month has been in effect, and I am excited to experience it with a new little twist this year...
This year, New Groningen's global project is helping to support the Offin Children's Centre in Ghana. This is the orphanage where our son, Eli, is currently living! Tim and I are ecstatic to have the involvement of the school in meeting a need that hits so close to home for us. I will actually be in Ghana while my students and colleagues are completing their service projects and raising money for the orphanage -- how cool!
New Groningen will be raising money (the goal is $2 per child) to purchase new bowls for the recently created dining hall at the orphanage and school. If every New Groningen student raises $2 this month, the Offin Children's Centre will have enough bowls for every child to have his/her own at mealtime! I know that some of you have been following our family blog this year -- as you may have read in the Come to the Table posts last month -- this is a HUGE improvement from the dining conditions we witnessed just a couple of months ago. I can't wait to be able to add updated photos and videos of the new dining hall and the children's smiling faces soon -- THANKS, New Groningen students and staff!
All of the first grade classes celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday yesterday!
We spent the morning studying, reading, exploring, re-creating, and listening to Dr. Seuss books. In the afternoon, I surprised the kids with a pizza party for lunch (just trying to soak up as many final moments with them as I could!) then we had a mystery reader, switched classes for some more Dr. Seuss fun, celebrated Fischer's birthday, and then had an all-school assembly in the afternoon. WOW! What a fabulous Friday!
You can check out the pictures from our day below!
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