Danielle Murphy

First Grade Teacher ✏️ Lover of Animals 🐶 Sports Enthusiast ⚽️ “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” 💕

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9th day of the countdown brought Camping Day! Lots of fun to be had in the last week of school ☺️

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Today’s countdown activities, yearbook signing and a virtual field trip (not pictured) to the aquarium and Hershey Park!

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Day 7 of the countdown was Beach Day! All 7 first grade classes rotated to different beach themed activities through the morning/afternoon!

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We solved an Ice Cream Mystery for our 6th day of the end of the year countdown! Students worked in groups to figure out who stole the ice cream!

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Countdown day 5, we had the perfect day for snack outside and extra recess!

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Countdown day 4, we solved a lemonade mystery! Students worked through stations to figure out who stole the lemons from the lemonade stand. We ended with a video on how to run your very own lemonade stand!

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Day 3 of our countdown, we designed bubble wands to see who could make the biggest bubble! Proud of my little engineers!

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On the second day of our end of the year countdown, we celebrated becoming published authors with a book celebration! Students in three classes shared class created books, each filled with memories from first grade ☺️

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Day 1 of our End of the Year Countdown started with a movie day! We watched Inside Out and had discussions to extend our understanding of our feelings from our PATHS curriculum ☺️ #gves

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Math Station Rotations today with a write the room task and @BoddleLearning quiz to extend our understanding of time! #GVES

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Learning about nonstandard measurement units by measuring ourselves and partners! #GVESstrong

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Today we took a trip over to the @FCPSESSL to learn about some cool animals and look at our day/night sky patterns! My firsties had such a great time. Thank you for having us!

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Our opinion writing unit fell at the perfect time to write about why a leprechaun should give us his gold! Maybe one of my little giants can convince him 🍀🌟 #gvesgiants

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At GVES we began an iReady challenge across all grades. For the month of February, first grade passed the most reading lessons! So proud of my group and all the hard work they put in, let’s do it again for March! 🍀

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For our Unit 7 concept board, we were able to use our student anthologies to help come up with inquiry questions revolving around our theme Roots and Seeds! We had some really great ideas and I can’t wait to see where our explorations lead!

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I love when students can provide feedback to each other to strengthen their work! This week we looked at our How To writing and helped one another edit for things like punctuation, capitalization, and sight word spelling!

[Danielle Murphy @FCPSMurphy]

Happy Groundhog’s Day! We took a vote to predict what we thought Phil would see and then did a comprehension check on a Groundhog’s Day article!

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After reading our story OpenCourt story “Insects Grow and Change”, we extended our knowledge of life cycles by investigating the life cycle of a butterfly!

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Met up with our 4th grade Math Buddies today! The 1st graders picked out one of our center games and taught the older kids how to play! Building school community one buddy at a time! ☺️

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We tried something new with our This or That board this week! Students had the choice of independent practice through an interactive Google slides or Peardeck lesson to strengthen their skills identifying Long e words! It was a hit!