Earth Day is April 22, so in celebration the Coal City Early Childhood Center is ordering Earth Day T-Shirts! 

This 100% cotton, pre-shrunk t-shirt is sapphire blue with cartoon frogs on the front, saying "Reduce- Reuse- Recycle, It's a Green Thing". 

We will be collecting orders up until March 1st, so please submit your order form and payment to your classroom teacher or in the office. 

Please leave a comment on this post if you have any questions!

**I sent home an order form with each student, but attached below is the Earth Day t-shirt order form.

This week we will be learning about President's Day, the celebration of George Washington's birthday. George Washington was our first president and a very special person in our history. We also can take this time to learn about Abraham Lincoln because his birthday falls so close to Washington's (February 12th). 

In addition to learning about these special Americans, we will also be doing a President's Day craft (Thanks to The First Grade Parade for this great idea!). 

Here is an example that I created on my iPad, but my students will be creating their own paper plate George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, complete with hat and wig or beard!

This week First Grade learned another way to describe properties of matter: if something is "magnetic". 

After reading the book "My Magnet", each table got a bucket filled with magnets and were able to free explore. They asked each other questions and developed predictions on whether something was going to be magnetic. 

It was really cool to see all the different ways that the First Graders were able to explore the magnets... even through the table!