At the beginning of the year, the students added their fingerprints to a large tree to create a grade level piece of artwork. We did this...

First Grade read A Rainbow of Friends by P.K. Hallinan as a connection to creating our class Social Contract and as an introduction to the ...

For Constitution Day, we used the website www.pebblego.com to learn about the history of the constitution. We then created a Double Bubble ...

Our district uses the Capturing Kids' Hearts process to promote positive behavior. One aspect of this process is building a Social Contr...

We read Dvid Goes to School by David Shannon to practice following directions and to identify finding the parts of a book. After reading, th...

In Social Studies the students learned about working together as a team to accomplish a job. They learned how certain jobs are specialized t...

As we learned the classroom and school rules, we read David Goes to School by David Shannon . As we read, we also reviewed the parts of a bo...

In honor of Presidents' Day, the students wrote why they would be a good president. I was proud that they used our Capturing Kids' S...

The students filled out reindeer applications today in writing. I got the application from The First Grade Teaching blog . As the students f...

To help elaborate on our Social Contract  and to learn the parts of a book, we read No, David! and David Goes to School by David Shannon. B...

In our class we follow a Social Contract to help the students and me work together to achieve positive behavior. A Social Contract is part o...