Katherine Edmonds   St. James welcomes Ms. Katherine Edmonds to Texarkana, and especially to St. James Day School's first grade! She comes with fourteen years teaching experience in kindergarten, first, and second grades in private schools. In addition to her bachelor's degree from California Baptist University, she has earned 30 graduate hours from Texas Christian University and the University of California, Riverside. In addition to being an experienced teacher in the primary grades, Ms. Edmonds is fluent in Spanish and has taught it both here and in the mission field. The Edmonds recently moved from Tyler to Texarkana. email Ms. Edmonds

First grade assistant teacher is Ms. Carla Sanderson

We have SPARTANS in our class!

St. James' Frst Grade is definitely
ARTSMART!

With the help of Ms. Gladys Keeton, Professor of Dance from Texas Women's University, and a TRAHC ArtSmart instructor, we have stood tall, shrunk small, walked and hopped, twirled, and made statues of ourselves!

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Class snaps from our very first MUSICAL!

We clean up very well!

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See more pictures of our Celebration here

Science and Computer

Websites we visit to learn more about living and non-living plants.
You can take a look too!

Plants & the Environment	Habitats	Monarch Butterflies
Internet For September Classrooms	Neat Animals!	All About Plants

What's new in Math?

Spelling Hints:

Monday: Write each word two times.

Tuesday: Have your child spell the words orally and use in a sentence.

Wednesday: Dictate the words and have your child write them. Then give them a clue to see if they can find the word. For example, if the word were high, you could ask them what the opposite of low is. This helps with word meaning.

Thursday: Dictate words, reminding them of the objectives for the week.

Dictation

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