If your child is struggling with their reading or seem to have lost interest, check out the BBC's Words and Pictures website. This webs...

This week is a very busy week in first grade! As a reminder, we have a field trip this Wednesday morning to Casa Manana in Fort Worth. We ...

Yesterday we made predictions about what we thought would stain teeth by soaking eggs in three liquids: water, grape juice, and soda. The st...

Yesterday we explored and created three kinds of graphs: real-object, picture, and bar-type graphs. First the students voted on which type o...

This six weeks we are learning about how we grow and change, how organisms depend upon one another and their habitat. This week we focused o...

Over the last six weeks we have had been having Rainbow Lessons in our class led by a fabulous teacher, Ms. K., each Friday morning followi...

During math tubbing we have been revisiting patterns quite a bit. It is one of the students' favorite things. A few weeks ago we practic...

To practice comparing and ordering larger numbers, the students used Base Ten Blocks to create the first letter of their name and later the ...

Over the last few weeks we have been exploring measurement with non-standard objects. The students started by measuring large objects but th...

An oldie but a goodie! A few weeks back when the weather was a little bit chillier, the students had the opportunity to observe snow ...

The students were priveleged today to hear from an amazing storyteller and author, Toni Simmons. Ms. Tricoli, the school's librarian, a...

A snow day did not keep us from enjoying our Valentine's Day Party...even if it was a week later than planned. The students had a great ...

Last week we read Where Does the Brown Bear Go? by Nicki Weiss to learn about adjectives. As a part of our study of adjectives the students...

Over the last several weeks we have been reading and comparing several versions of Cinderella. We read the classic version and two more mod...

This week in math we are studying measurement. In first grade we measure with nonstandard units such as lima beans, cubes, linking chains, p...

Last week we had D.E.A.R. time in our classroom, as did all classes in Grand Prairie ISD. D.E.A.R. stands for Drop Everything And Read. The ...

Over the last few weeks we have been reviewing repeating patterns and learning about a special type of patterns, additive patterns. Enjoy th...

This week we reviewed repeating patterns and learned a new kind of pattern, additive patterns. Additive patterns are patterns that grow. As ...

Today our countdown to the 100th day of school officially ended! To celebrate this special day of school, we began with our 100th day projec...