First Grade

           The first grade will have some wonderful events happen this fall.  The children will experience presentations from the L.I. Science Center. These include presentations such as 'Mysterious Forests", allowing the children to press leaves, a lesson on L.I. Native Americans and a seed planting activity.

           For a field trip, the children will visit the L.I. Fire Museum in Garden City for “hands-on” fire safety instruction.

           During November, special math activities are planned: pie tasting and graphing their preferences, popcorn estimation and listening to a Native American legend in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. The students will create beautiful turkeys with their families to be displayed in OCR’s hallway.

          During the winter season, first graders will enjoy our traditional “Cookie Buffet.” In January, a trip is planned to the BroadHollow Theatre to see a presentation of “Frosty the Snowman.”  After the holidays, we will be working on our spectacular Chinese New Year celebration!  In addition, the L.I. Science Center will be doing a presentation on animals living in the winter where they will be making an animal's footprint mold.