Check out my store on Teachers Pay Teachers! You will find many general education resources for math, science, and reading along with decor...

Another station that the students may choose to work in is an Art Career Station. In this Art Based Station, the Kindergarten and First Grad...

One of the Art Based Stations that third through fifth grade may choose to work on when they finish work early or on Fridays is an Artist Qu...

On most Fridays, the students work in Art Based Learning Stations. One of the stations is Artist Research Writing. In this station, the stud...

Before teaching Visual Arts, I taught First Grade. With that background, I believe that "Word Walls" are a good reference for stud...

This is a lesson I always did when I taught first grade. Now that I'm in art, I extended it to a collaborative project for Kinder throug...

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...

I created several sets of Bingo games for Fry's Instant Words and uploaded them to my TpT store . There are four sets of Bingo boards in...

I recently uploaded a few files to my TpT store that I have used the last few years for classroom management. The first is a set of class...

I am truly blown away by how far this group of first graders came in their reading this year. To celebrate, we went outside on the last day ...

The students competed in against "houses" in a spelling bee. Mrs. Guzman called out a word to the first person in the line and if ...

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

We Give Books , a resource we use in class all the time, has a free reading program this summer. According to their site, they will highl...

As summer approaches, so does the dreaded "summer slide!" Here is a great article from Reading is Fundamental about the ...

The students have made great progress this year in reading. To show of their reading, each first grade class learned one Readers' Theate...

Friday first grade had a guest speaker to share information about her job in the promotions department of KISS FM radio. Ms. Guterriez, who ...

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...