After reading A Bad Case of Stripes and Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students created Venn Diagrams to compare the stories. After cre...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

The students used Pixie 2 to create place value posters in the computer lab. They first learned how to create lines to divide the paper in ...

The students were each given four number cards to model in a drawing as tens and ones on a foldable. They then wrote comparison sentences t...

In writing we researched and compared the role Santa Claus plays in The United States, Germany, France, and Mexico. As a whole group, we cha...

To help the students understand the difference between expository and fiction texts, we read Scaredy Crow (from ReadingA-Z ) and All Kinds o...

As a part of our study over David Shannon books, we read Too Many Toys and A Bad Case of Stripes. As you can read about in previous posts, t...

In addition to reading The Mixed Up Chameleon, we also read The Grouchy Ladybug. The students created three-flap foldables for this book as ...

The students worked in small groups to measure a lizard family with various non-standard units. They used pop cubes, paper clips, beans, etc...

In reading we read Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine to work on comparing character traits. After reading the book the class created a Doubl...

Ms. Willemin, our student teacher, taught the students a Social Studies lesson on the different types of whales and their habitats. She taug...

Our school recently had Family Math Night as a way to teach students and parents games they can play at home to reinforce basic math skills....

When possible, I think students should be able to work together in small groups. It not only adds to their engagement and motivation, it giv...

In science the students have been learning how to differentiate between living and non-living objects. They have brainstormed various object...

The students were asked to bring in 100 items that were all the same in a bag. They shared with their friends what they brought in. We then ...