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...

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

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...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

In writing the students created paper eggs using patterns and paint. They then wrote descriptive papers about their eggs. We numbered each e...

In reading we learned about various types of media and the techniques used in each to convey the author's purpose. The students learned ...

The students created Tree Maps on the computer using Pixie 2 for 3D shapes. After adding the 3D shapes under each branch, they then searched...

We read The Copycat Fish by Marcus Pfister and then the students retold the story in order as a class using a Flow Map. The students then in...

We read Fred and Pete at the Beach by Cynthia Nugent to practicing retelling stories in order. As a class, the students retold the events o...

We spent two weeks on our ocean theme. To start our theme, we read Dory Story by Jerry Pallotta . As we read, we talked about food chains an...

The students used their questions they had about space from a previous lesson and then worked in small groups to find answers using a variet...

The students wrote sentences to explain what they would do if they lived in a snow globe. They then created a snow globe out of construction...

Back in January the students created their own snowman and then wrote to describe them. They wrote what they looked like and what they coul...

In writing we researched and compared the role Santa Claus plays in The United States, Germany, France, and Mexico. As a whole group, we cha...

The students worked on using their Thinking Maps to come up with more details to describe objects. This time they described a bat. Instead o...