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

Each student wrote to explain what their favorite thing about the ocean is and why. They then illustrated their writing. ...

During our camping theme, the students made s'mores. Since we obviously cannot build a fire, we made them in the microwave. After making...

To practice following multi-step directions, the students learned how to draw a tent as a part of our camping theme. The students were given...

In writing the students have been learning to explain why or why not they think something. Since we were researching space in reading, they ...

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...

We learned about the Pilgrims' journey by using the Scholastic website and PebbleGo . The students then wrote about what the Pilgrims w...

The students created and wrote about scarecrows for one of our weekly writing lessons. I'm very proud of how they are adding descriptive...

The students wrote to describe spiders with the help of Thinking Maps. After writing, we had an art lesson on how to draw a spider web. The ...

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...

The students used Thinking Maps to organize their ideas of how to describe a pumpkin. They then wrote three sentences using those Maps. Each...