Mrs. Karr

First Grade Teacher at Fernbrook Elementary School 🍎✏📓

[Ms. Emberger @msemberger]

Fernbrook is Blooming with Kindness 🌸🌼🐝🦋 @MrsKarr_ @Ms_Groome @Ms.KEST @Ms.M @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

There is truly nothing sweeter than the sound of first graders reading independently! I am so proud of how far they have come this year!! 🥰📚💖 @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

My class has been working so hard during readers theater! They have been working on their fluency while practicing their lines & are adding so many details to their scenery! They are almost ready for their performances next week. 🎬🍿@fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

One of my sweet little firsties gave me the most thoughtful “just because” surprise today. 🤍 Just what I needed on this gloomy Wednesday! 🌷@fernbrooknj

[Robin Groome @Ms_Groome]

Enjoying Read Across America Week with Mrs. Karr’s @MrsKarr_ and Ms. Emberger’s @msemberger class by coming together to create “My Favorite Book” hats and flash light reading! The kids had so much fun collaborating together! 📖 @fernbrooknj @hetal_amin1 @mbernal_DrB

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Always choose kindness!

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

First grade scientists hard at work learning that the moon is NOT a natural light source through a hands on demonstration on how the moon reflects light from the sun! 🌑☀️@fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

While learning about the non-fiction text feature “Table of contents” one student made a huge connection and shared that they have seen this before in a second graders “All About” book during @MissMooreFB1’s publishing party! 📖💡#makingconnections @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

The sweetest surprise from a student I had two years ago 🥹 “People will forget what you said…but people will never forget how you made them feel” #mywhy @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Today we celebrated Grinch Day! 💚 After reading the book, we discussed character traits of The Grinch & wrote how we would make The Grinch grin! Students noticed that all of our examples were great acts of kindness for us to show others. ❤️ @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1 @fernbrooknj

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Today we learned all about Hanukkah from one of our expert students! Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate! 🕎 @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1 @fernbrooknj

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Room B-25 is feeling extra thankful this year! 🤎 @rando

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Engineers hard at work! Today we made predictions & then tested out if the shape of a tool makes a difference. Students were tasked with picking up as many macaroni noodles as possible in 15 seconds using chopsticks & then with a spoon! @mbernal_DrB @hetal_amin1 @fernbrooknj

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Thank you to our fabulous PTO for organizing such a fun & entertaining assembly today with Dino Man! First grade had a blast learning about dinosaurs & fossils! 🦖⭐️ @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

First grade had a blast designing, creating & presenting their turkey disguises and thanksgiving day parade floats this week! @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @KatherineTThorn

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

We are one thankful class. 🤍 Happy thanksgiving to everyone and their families! @fernbrooknj @mbernal_DrB @KatherineTThorn

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

We held a mock election after reading “Grace for President” and “Duck for President”. Ss filled out voter registration cards and hit the voting booth to cast their votes. Tomorrow in math we will count & graph the ballots to find out the results! 🇺🇸 @fernbrooknj @KatherineTThorn

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Nothing beats the sweet sound of first graders using their decoding skills as they sound out words and read some of their favorite books! Their reading muscles are growing stronger and stronger everyday! 💪🏼#proudteacher @fernbrooknj @KatherineTThorn

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

This week we created our own heart maps and decorated our writing folders with photos of special memories, traditions & important people in our lives to motivate and inspire future writing opportunities! @fernbrooknj @KatherineTThorn @RandolphSchools

[Mrs. Karr @MrsKarr_]

Yesterday, we read “Chrysanthemum” & discussed the importance of our names to our unique identity! We incorporated math by counting the letters in our name, used tally marks & 10 frames to represent that number before making our own name gardens! @KatherineTThorn @fernbrooknj