As a fun craft project, the students created these little alligators at the end of the school year.

The students completed First Grade Memory booklets to share some of their favorite things about the year. Included in the booklet were two a...

The students created a Father's Day gift before we released for the summer. They completed a questionnaire and then drew a picture of th...

We had quite the adventure making ice cream during the last week of school. Using a recipe from Pinterest, the students combined Half and Ha...

To have a little fun and clean off their desks, we played in shaving cream during the last week of school. The students practiced writing th...

On the last day of school, one of the things we did was to discuss the students' future goals. Those goals included going to college and...

During the last week of school the students created collaborative art projects to take home as a keepsake from first grade. Each student had...

To showcase their reading skills, we held an end-of-year Readers' Theater Performance. Each first grade class learned their own Readers...

We had our End-of-Year Picnic last Thursday. The students had about two hours to play soccer, basketball, draw with chalk, run, play chase, ...

A few weeks ago we had our annual Field Day. The students rotated through various physical challenges such as Tug-of-War, Shoe Fling, Footba...

I'm always looking for new ways to motivate the students to stay on task and to have positive behavior. Recently I discovered an online ...

To review area, the students designed their own dream bedroom. They first listed on a Circle Map furniture, toys, and other miscellaneous it...

Using the software Kidspiration on our Promethean Board, we had a quick review of how to create a bar-type graph. We reviewed that first you...

In science we have been learning how animals are dependent on their environment and the specials characteristics they have to make them suit...

We recently read The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming  to further learn how to make connections to a story. After reading and discussing so...