I recently attended a training given by my Fine Arts supervisor, Mrs. Judy Nunneley. In the class we cut out various words from magazines an...

Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

This isn’t just a turkey, As anyone can see. I made it with my hand, Which is a part of me. It’s made with lots of love Especially to say...

In reading we have been working on identifying examples of rhymes, alliterations, and sensory details in poetry. As a part of this study, th...

As a part of our fluency and phonics practice focusing in s-blends, the students learned the poem "Spinning Spiders" which we reco...

The students recorded their weekly poem "My Dog, Tag" on the class IPad. We learned this poem to practice the sounds for short /a/...

Click here to listen to the students read one of their weekly poems "My Cat." The students learned this poem as we studied the so...

To listen to the students reading one of their weekly poems, "I Like Jam", click here . They love recording their poems each week ...

Each week the students learn one or two new poems. The poems are typically based on our phonics focus of the week. At the end of the week, t...

During our study of alliterations, the students wrote their own name alliterations. As a class they brainstormed words that start with every...

Several weeks ago the students worked in small groups to write rhyming and alliteration poems. They wrote them together on scratch paper fir...

We have been learning the poem "Crayons" to practice reading color words. We have also been working on our fluency. To hear the st...

We have been learning to read and sing "A Hunting We Will Go" as a way to practice fluency and identifying rhyming words. To hear ...

Last week we studied the various attributes of poetry. We learned about alliterations, rhymes, and sensory details. To assess their understa...

With just two days left in the school week before our amazing holiday break, we want to wish you an early Happy Thanksgiving! The artwork th...

This week we are learning about the different elements of poetry. To help them, we read a Thanksgiving alliteration and then they created th...

This week we are learning about the different elements of poetry. Yesterday we read "Miss Mary Mack" to identify examples of allit...

This week the students read the poem "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson. After reading, we used the same brainstorming process ...