When our phonics focus was "short o", we practiced this sound by reading the poem "Hot Dogs." The students also sorted w...

As a part of our phonics study, we have special phonics days on most Fridays. As we studied 'short a' the students practiced reading...

As a review of graphing, the students created a table to record data about how many plants of certain colors we would like to plant in a gar...

In math the students have been learning to create and read tables and graphs. We have been learning about three types of graphs: real-object...

This week we read Lisa's Daddy and Daughter Day by Eloise Greenfield. Before reading, the students made predictions about what would hap...

As a part of our weekly theme "family fun", we read A Visit From Aunt Rose by Patsy Becvar. On the first day that we read the stor...

A few weeks ago we read All I Am by Eileen Roe to learn about nouns and verbs. After reading the book we created a t-chart of the things tha...

To help the students learn responsibility, we have classroom jobs. The classroom jobs range from being the trash helper (taking out the recy...

Each day a student is given the classroom job of being the calendar helper. The calendar helper is responsible for teaching their classmates...

A few weeks ago we were reading various stories about school. One of the books we read was Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes - one of my favorit...

Thank you to Lori at Bee the Change for passing on the Versatile Blogger Award to me. It is very nice to have fellow teachers share their i...

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about map skills and directional words. To help the students remember the order of the dir...

Today we compared Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella to discuss how fairy tales typically begin with the phrase "once upon a time...

Last week we worked extensively on rhyming words and alliterations. The students practiced finding rhyming words with the song "A Hunti...

To help elaborate on our Social Contract  and to learn the parts of a book, we read No, David! and David Goes to School by David Shannon. B...