Jan Brangaccio

First Grade Teacher at McKitrick Elementary, National Board Certified Teacher

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Interesting and famous people showed up for school Monday. We had fun researching and writing for our biography reports.

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Celebrating Gratitude and Compassion! Four wonderful and deserving students.

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As we finished a week of reading and learning about volcanos we made our own volcanos and watched them erupt. 🌋

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We Had A Blast At Bobcat Bash!!

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Happy Valentine’s Day from our class!!A fun, sugar filled afternoon. ❤️

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One Word for 2023. Each of us chose a word to describe how we want to be this year.

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Reading and relaxing outside on a beautiful day! 🌞😎📕📗📘

[Jan Brangaccio @MrsBsBobcats]

Celebrating our Citizens of the Month and True Colors. Our class is proud of each of them! 🎉🎉

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Wonderfully creative and delicious Gingerbread Houses. Yum!

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Stepping back in history this week using multiple resources to learn facts about the Wampanoag and Pilgrims. ‘Churning’ butter, eating cornbread, using symbols to write messages on ‘deer skin’. History is Fun! @McKitrickElem

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Honoring veterans in our families and in our community. 🇺🇸

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Who was ready to finally go on a field trip again? We Were!! We had a fun time spending time together bowling (and applying our knowledge of Forces and Motion). Thank you Pin Chasers for a fantastic experience. @McKitrickElem

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October also brought the return of the Boosterthon Fun Run!! It was fun. Enjoying our time together. 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

[Jan Brangaccio @MrsBsBobcats]

October has been a busy month! Applying what we learned in the Science Olympics. Congratulations to our class winner Ian. And, the long awaited return of SMAC. Our high school buddies came to read with us.

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Fantastic Fall Fun!! Carving a pumpkin, classroom trick or treating, making Oreo spiders, and ‘drinking the guts out of insects.’ @McKitrickElem

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Another Fantastic Mask Parade! Everyone had such creative ideas. @McKitrickElem

[Jan Brangaccio @MrsBsBobcats]

We had to wait a week, but oh what fun our Apple STEM activities were today 🍎.Exploring how to build a tower using only apples and toothpicks and investigating which substance helps apples from turning brown. And, yummy apple snacks too!! Science is Fun! 🍎🍎 @McKitrickElem

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The Fun Run is coming! Today was our Boosterthon Pep Rally. Let’s raise some money for our school. 🏃🏃‍♀️ @mckitrickpta

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Who Stole The Cookies From the Cookie Jar? 🍪. Detectives using hand lenses to compare fingerprints and solve the mystery. 🔎. Case Closed (and the evidence was delicious). Science is Fun!! @McKitrickElem

[Jan Brangaccio @MrsBsBobcats]

We had an exciting first few days of school. First Day pictures, Second Day doing everything by 2s, Third Day sharing our summer fun and looking forward to what is to come in Second Grade. It will be a great year! 🤩🐾