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

We read the How The Grinch Stole Christmas to work on several reading skills. The students first retold the story to a partner and then indi...

In reading we have been learning about character traits. We recently read Auntie Claus to discuss how the main character, Sohpie Kringle, c...

Several months back our first grade team brainstormed various ways we could help our students review concepts. One of the ways we came up w...