While reading David Shannon books, we also learned about him as an author and illustrator. We watched a short interview with him from Schola...

We used various book and internet sources to research facts about the Beluga Whale. The facts were added to a Thinking Map. The students the...

We read Fred and Pete at the Beach by Cynthia Nugent to practicing retelling stories in order. As a class, the students retold the events o...

Using PebbleGo , we learned about a specific type of flower: the sunflower. The students then used what they learned to answer various quest...

On Tuesdays and Thursdays our class is fortunate to have an intern, Mrs. Sanford, from Dallas Baptist University assist in our class for a f...

When I originally posted about our Beluga Whale Research , I failed to take a picture of their final product. Below is their final draft:

Did you know Beluga Whales are often called the "canaries of the sea?" As a part of our oceans unit, each first grade class chose ...

As a part of our lessons on how to identify the main idea of texts, we read several books from We Give Books and Reading A-Z about various...

As a part of our writing program, Write From the Beginning, the students created their own strand of Christmaas lights which they then wrote...

Over the last several weeks our word work has been based on the digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. We have sorted words beginning with the...

This week we have been reading and writing about various animals. Yesterday we read "Zoo Baby Boom" about ways The National Zoo he...

As a part of our Social Studies lessons, the students researched the Beluga Whale. Each first grade class researched a different type of wha...

As a part of our study of day and night and space, we read "One Giant Leap: A Story of Neil Armstrong." After reading the biograph...

The students used interactive writing to complete a Flow Map about the events in the story Mama's Coming Home. Retelling stories with sp...

Last week we read Up, Up, Up! It's Apple Picking Time! by Jody Fickes Shapiro. The students then worked together to retell in writing w...