
That's right! Megan Dagnino was in full character as "Witch Eldora" while reading her story book "Witch's Brew" to the students at Elizabeth Ide! Such a treat and joy to have an author visit with students to inspire and ignite our imagination!





Elizabeth Ide students had the best surprise today when Megan Dagnino, author of “Witch’s Brew,” came to their lunch and read them her book!
Team Beseth couldn’t wait to get some pictures with her! #idepride #witchsbrew 🧙♀️🎃 📖





During our Word Study time, first grade students sorted pictures by beginning sound and matched words to the pictures.




Team Halper celebrated earning 10 class PAWS with Flashlight Friday! Students had so much fun reading by flashlight and using flashlights during math centers.





Our 1st grade scientists are hard at work creating models to demonstrate how animals and plants use camouflage as a defense against predators in the wild. 🥼#firstgraderocks #idepride🦁



First graders used clay and other materials to create a model of structures that animals and plants use to defend themselves.




We love it when our crafts double as Fall decorations! We had fun tracing our hands to make a tree trunk and strengthening our fine motor skills by ripping up piles of “leaves” for our Fall trees! 🍂


We celebrated our first Star Student this week! We are so excited to be able to welcome guest readers into our classroom again! ⭐️


Our Kindergarteners loved reading outside and enjoying the beautiful weather! ☀️📚



Our Kindergarteners are working hard at adding labels and details to their pictures, and identifying sight words in their writing during writer’s workshop! ✏️



Team Finn chose the school library to “get caught reading” for our Elizabeth Ide September reading incentive. They loved it! 📚 💕





Team Finn chose the school library to “get caught reading” for our Elizabeth Ide September reading incentive. They loved it! 📚 💕





Thank you to our amazing custodians for their hard work behind the scenes to keep our schools safe and clean! #NationalCustodianDay #ccsd66


Our 1st grade mathematicians partnered up to play Domino Top Draw! Learning how to add and playing games with our friends is a WIN WIN!! #firstgraderocks #idepride🦁




Our 1st grade scientists are hard at work this week building models to explain how animals use different body structures to defend themselves in the wild. #firstgraderocks✏️ #idepride🦁



SO proud of our kindergartners! We practiced THREE reading centers today. Listen to reading, work on words and this was read to self. They rocked it!



Practicing 2D shapes, number recognition, number tracing, and working as a team during math centers!





Our Kindergarteners are having fun matching and creating patterns, such as AB, AAB, and ABB patterns!





We had so much fun completing our Me On The Map projects in kindergarten.


Learning about ten frames with Pete the Cat!
