We had our First Grade Field Day where we got to do a lot of fun field activities! We worked hard, had good teamwork and showed good sportsmanship! 

We have been talking about maps in social studies. Here is our 3D map of our class town Damonville!

We celebrated Earth Week learning about how we can take care of the Earth; planting trees, saving energy, reduce, reuse and recycle, picking up trash, and not polluting the air. We also go to... Read More

September- Citizenship: Emma October- Kindness: Cooper November- Gratitude: Elise December- Empathy: Elijah January- Grit: Barkley February- Acceptance: Hadley March- Growth Mindset:... Read More

This week we had our Elementary Art Fair! Check out our class art fair participants and their artwork! 

Today we celebrated National Crayon Day! 

On Thursday, we went to the Children's Theater to watch the play Cordoroy!

Today we celebrated all of our Tiger Paws by having a Beach Day Lunch! 

On Wednesday, we had Lauren Olsem come to Delano Elementary to talk about her book What Makes a Home?

We celebrate the 101st Day of School by watching 101 Dalmatians! 

Today was the 100th day of school! Check out the 100 things we brought to share!

We celebrate Valentine's Day by passing out valentines to our friends and having a fun party! Check out our fun activities!  

On February 1st we celebrated Global School Play Day! We got to build, play and create things all day! 

These past few months we have been learning about different holidays that are celebrated around the world. We had so much fun "flying" to different countries and learning about their... Read More

On Friday, each student brought a toy to school. They shared 3 clues about the toy and the class had to guess what it was. After everyone shared, they got to play with their toys!

On Monday, Santa Claus stopped by to surprise the kids! 

This week we filled out job applications to work as Santa's elves. They chose to build toys, bake cookies or wrap presents! 

Today we made Gingerbread Houses after we learned about Christmas in Germany! Germany was the first country to do gingerbread houses and Christmas trees! 

Today all of first grade made fleece blankets for foster kids! Check it out!

Thank you to everyone who donated money to our school to buy more items for the Imaginarium and for calming corners! 

On Friday, November 11th we celebrated Veterans Day by writing letters to Veterans to thank them for their service, for keeping us safe and fighting for our freedom. Thank you to all Veterans for... Read More

Today we had our Halloween Party! We did pumpkin math, played Halloween Bingo, had a spooky snack, and put on our costumes for the parade! Check it out!

As an optional family project, some kids made Book Character Pumpkins to decorate our hallways!

On Monday, we celebrated Kindness in Chalk by going outside to write and draw kind and happy things on the sidewalk!

Today we had the Delano Fire Department come to our school to talk about fire safety. We got to go in the fire truck!

On Tuesday, we went for a Nature Walk to look for leaves. Check out what we found! 

This week we learned about Johnny Appleseed and apples. We celebrated with apples, caramel and peanut butter!

We celebrated Homecoming Week with dress up days and a pep fest to cheer on our high school athletes! We also had a dancer read to our class!

This week Stahlke Bus Company came to go over Bus Safety with us!

Today we had our last day of school! We are ready and excited to be 2nd graders!

Yesterday we have our 1st grade field trip to the MN Zoo! We had fun seeing lots of different animals and hanging out with our classmates. Check it out!

September- Citizenship: Jennifer October- Kindness: Lorelei November- Gratitude: Farrell December- Empathy: Kash January- Grit: Noah February- Acceptance: Gia March- Growth Mindset:... Read More

Today we got to enjoy 7 different activities for Field Day! We also had a 1st Grade tug-of-war competition! Check it out!

We have been talking about maps in social studies so we took this week to make our own 3D map. Welcome to Wiese World!

On Wednesday we got to go on our first field trip to Kelley Farm! We got to see animals, play a game in the field, pump water, saw wood, and help make crackers and coffee in the kitchen! Check it... Read More

Today we celebrated Earth Day by having an Earth friendly lunch and watching The Lorax!

Today we celebrate National Crayon Day (early- March 31st)!  We listened to stories about crayons, learned about who invented the crayon, wrote a letter to a crayon and used our crayons to... Read More

Today we celebrated all of our hard work of reading for "I Love to Read" Month by having the Reading Carnival! Check out all of the fun we had! 

Today we celebrated "Two's Day" (2-22-22) by wearing tutus and Twins gear! We worked on words with two syllables, double consonants, homophones, and compound words in reading. We... Read More

We celebrated the 101st Day of School by making Dalmatians, Dalmatian headbands and watching 101 Dalmatians! 

On February 14th, we celebrated the 100th Day of School. Check out all of the 100 things that we brought for sharing!

Today we celebrated the 2022 Winter Olympics by playing hockey and curling, going bobsledding and running in a torch relay race. Check out all of our fun! Thank you to Ms. Graham and Mr. Lyngen... Read More

Yesterday we celebrated Global School Play Day! We got to play, build and create things all day! 

The first graders just finished their Holidays Around the World Unit! Our passports are full of stamps as we flew to 19 different countries and learned about different holidays and celebrations. 

Today we all wrote 3 clues about a toy that we brought to school. Everyone got to guess what it was and then we go to play with all the toys!

Today our class flew to Germany for Holidays Around the World! We learned that Germany is where decorating gingerbread houses started. Check our gingerbread houses out! 

First grade did a service project of making fleece blankets for foster kids. We made a total of 41 blankets! Thank you to everyone who donated money or fleece to help us with this project to help... Read More

Today we celebrated the end of our school fundraiser with our Boosterthon Dance Fit! We were able to raise over $40,000 to help get some new playground equipment for our school! 

On November 11th, we celebrated Veteran's Day by writing letters to Veterans to thank them for their service and sacrifices that they made to keep our country safe. Thank you to all... Read More

We had 3 winners from our class who won the pumpkin contest at CorTrust Bank! 

Today we celebrated our Halloween Party and had our costume parade! Check out all of our awesome costumes! 

Today the Delano Fire Department came to our school to talk to us about fire safety. We learned about smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, how we should have a meeting place and how firefighters... Read More

Today we went on a nature walk to complete a scavenger hunt and collect some leaves! Check out the beautiful leaves we found! 

For the month of October, we talk about Kindness. We kicked off the month by drawing and writing kind things in chalk on the sidewalk for the Walk, Roll and Stroll on Monday night. Check it out! 

This week we celebrated Homecoming with dress up days and having the high school athletes and Homecoming Court come to read to us! Check it out! 

Today we celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day by making hats and eating apples with caramel for snack. All week we have learned about apples- where they first grew, how they taste, look and feel and... Read More

This week Stahlke Bus Company came to our school to talk about bus safety. We learned about the danger zone, how to evacuate, and all the bus rules we should follow to stay safe! 

We had a fun first day of school learning about our classmates and our classroom! 

We are so excited to be 2nd graders next year! Whoohooo!!

This year all first graders worked really hard on making number scrolls. Their goal is to get to 500 and everyone did that! Check it out!

Citizenship- Will Kindness- Sydney Gratitude- Harper  Empathy- Evan and Bradley  Grit- Lydia Growth Mindset- Addy Confidence- Winnie Sportsmanship/Teamwork- Chase Read More

Today, we got to go down to Mrs. Huikko's kindergarten room to see the baby chicks! Thank you to Mrs. Huikko for telling us about the process of the egg hatching, the chicken life cycle and... Read More

Our class has been talking about maps in Social Studies. We worked really hard to make a map of our class town called Wiese Woods! Check it out!  

Today we have Field Day! We participated in 10 different stations and were the champions of Kitchen Ball!! 

Today we found glitter Easter eggs with some treats inside! Happy Easter!

Today we celebrated National Crayon Day (March 31st)! We learned about the history and invention of crayons. We also read many stories and drew pictures using our color crayons! 

We celebrated the 101st Day of School by making Dalmatian ears, a Dalmatian dog project and watching 101 Dalmatians! 

Today we celebrated the 100th Day of School by bringing in 100 things to share! We also wrote about what it would be like if we were 100 years old and if we have 100 dollars. We are 100 days... Read More

Today we celebrated Global Play Day by playing inside and outside all day! We had so much fun creating things, using our imagination and working together! 

We just finished up our Holidays Around the World Unit! We learned about a lot of different cultures, holidays, celebrations and traditions from many countries around the world. It was fun to... Read More

This week we wrote 3 clues for the class to guess a toy of ours. Then we got to play with all of our toys! 

We learned about Germany during our Holidays Around the World and learned that they started the tradition of making and decorating gingerbread houses! Check ours out!

Today we celebrated the 50th Day of School by writing How To Make Root Beer Floats! Then, we got to enjoy them as a treat!

This week we learned about Greenland and how they celebrate Christmas. The children in Greenland write Santa letters, like us! So, we wrote our letters to Santa! Check them out!

Today we participated in 30 minutes of dancing for the Boosterthon fundraister! Thank you to everyone for your generous donations! 

Today we learned about and celebrated Veteran's Day. Thank you to all of the Veteran's for your service to our country! We appreciate your dedication, bravery, and patriotism!

On Tuesday, we celebrated Election Day by voting for two different lunch choices:  Cheese Omelet and Cinnamon Roll  or Chicken Nuggets  Cheese Omelet was the winner of... Read More

On Friday, we celebrated Halloween with costume day and our Halloween party! Check it out!

Today we went on a Nature Walk to collect leaves and do a scavenger hunt! We saw birds, leaves, dirt, clouds, ladybugs and more!

Today the Delano Fire Department came to school to talk to us about fire safety! We had a special surprise guest, Sparky, join us too!

Today we took time to write kind and uplifting things in chalk on the sidewalks around the school in the hope to spread some kindness! 

Today we celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day by making hats and eating apples at snack time with caramel and peanut butter!

Today our class had Bus Safety! We learned how to be respectful passengers, stay safe and evacuate the bus. Thank you Stahlke Bus Company! 

We may not be able to be together every day in school, but we are still finding ways to see, talk and connect with each other! I miss you all so much!

On Tuesday, we had a parade to celebrate the winter state athletes! Congratulations to the state gymnasts, swimmers and hockey players! Go Tigers!

On Monday, we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday by learning how to draw the Cat in the Hat. We are also listening to stories from all 50 states to celebrate Read Across America!  

To celebrate the 101st Day of School, we made dalmatian headbands and watched 101 Dalmatians!

This afternoon we had our Valentine's Party! We played Bingo, did a conversation heart relay, catapulted marshmallows, and made a sucker butterfly! Check out our fun!

Today we celebrate the 100th Day of School by bringing in 100 things. Check it out!

On Wednesday, February 5th all of first grade participated in Global Play Day. All day we got to play with toys and games, build things, create art and crafts, and go outside!