Did you eat a bug today?

It was a great first day of First Grade. The children were so happy to see each other after a few short months and the new students looked very comfortable in their new class. We kicked off the day with an assembly. The principal likes the first day of school to be a fun one that the children will remember. We had a very special visitor, the author David George Gordon, who wrote "Eat-a-bug  Cookbook: 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin." They watched the chef cook up some spicy spiders and crunchy grasshoppers. There were lots of "ewwws" as he was sizzling up his treats. Afterwards, we read some books, went to lunch, and then had some team building exercises - one called "putting the tennis balls on chair legs." It was so much fun and we discovered a lot of problem-solvers with this exercise. Luckily the rain held off and the kids had some outside time. When they came back in, it was time for the first chapter of  "Junie B. Jones, First Grader at Last."  Next, they had their first cooking lesson and made "Dessert Pizza" -- a delicious sugar cookie decorated with icing, sprinkles and M&Ms. What a grand ending to a great day!!
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