Grand Prairie Public Library's Summer Reading Challenge kicks off this Saturday, June 7th. One of the librarians visited our school ...

In small groups, the students visited to the library to research a specific ocean animal with our Instructional Media Specialist, Mrs. Chris...

Our class visits the library each Friday morning. The students may select up to three books to take home. Before being allowed to take books...

In reading we have been learning about author's purpose, informational texts, and using text evidence. As a part of these lessons, the s...

Our Instructional Media Specialist, Ms. Hollingsworth, created a fantastic schoolwide art project for the students. Each student was sent ho...

After visiting the library this week, our Instructional Media Specialist read 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving to the students. If y...

Each week our class visits the library. After the students check out their books, they sit down to read quietly while the other students fin...

Our class visits the library each Friday after lunch. The students may choose up to three books to take home. After choosing their books, th...

I recently coordinated an Earth Day Book Swap for our school as a way to promote recycling and reusing what we already have. Students were a...

On our visit to the library on Friday our Instructional Media Specialist, Mrs. Thornton, surprised the class with a new read-aloud. She read...

Our Instructional Media Aide, Mrs. Johnson, taught the first graders a lesson on how to use our library database, Horizon, to search for spe...

I've already written several posts about how we conduct research in our class but I wanted to share some pictures of my little researche...

As I blogged about before , our fantastic Instructional Media Specialist worked with all of the first grade students in small groups to rese...

Over the last several weeks the students have been working hard on researching and writing about various ocean animals. They visited the lib...

As mentioned in previous posts, we have been learning about space over the last few weeks. The main purpose of our space unit was to provide...