I recently stumbled upon an app for IPhones and IPads that art students will love. The app is Silk Interactive Generative Art and it allows...

In January I was fortunate to be able to attend The College Football Foundation's Extra Yard for Teachers Summit in Dallas. The keynot...

I have taken a break from blogging, with the exception of one post, since November. But, I have some unexpected free time today and some ide...

Thank you to my fellow teachers who have emailed to see when I will be blogging again. I've taken a hiatus from blogging since mid summe...

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...

A few weeks ago the students used PebbleGo to research one inventor of their choose. They wrote their facts on a Circle Map. They then used ...

Using the online program Tagxedo , the students typed words to describe their mother. They chose from one of the heart shapes and many color...

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

We visited the computer lab on Thursday so the students could research an inventor of their choice on their own. We use PebbleGo as our mai...

This lesson is from a while back but I forgot to post about it. When we were learning about the attributes of 3D shapes, we visited the comp...

A while back I stumbled across a site called A Story Before Bed . The site is intended for parents and grandparents to be able to record ...

The students researched facts about Cherry Blossoms during a mini-writing lesson. They then wrote the information they found on a Circle Map...

One of our favorite word work lessons is Making Words. The students use a set of letters to build various words that build up to a mystery w...

Below are some sites that offer free read aloud stories. Read alouds are a great way for children to hear fluent reading. If you have the bo...

After hearing from our garden expert, the students wrote friendly letters to thank her for sharing her knowledge and to tell her what they l...

After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle , the students created their own caterpillars. We then researched caterpillars on Pe...

The students used Pixie 2 to create computer based plant diagrams. They filled the background with a sky background using the fill feature. ...

The students chose one fact about the ocean animal that they researched and made a computer slide about it using Pixie 2. The students had t...

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...