With just two days left in the school week before our amazing holiday break, we want to wish you an early Happy Thanksgiving! The artwork th...

To help the students learn about Thanksgiving and the relationship between Pilgrims and Native Americans, we visited the Scholastic website....

This week we are learning about the different elements of poetry. To help them, we read a Thanksgiving alliteration and then they created th...

This is from about a month back but it is too cute not to share. When we were studying Nursery Rhymes, the students recorded themselves read...

This week we are learning about the different elements of poetry. Yesterday we read "Miss Mary Mack" to identify examples of allit...

Last week we were studying various sounds including /sl/, /sp/, and /st/. We also were having "college week" in our district. So, ...

Last week our weekly theme was sports. As a part of our lessons, we read Maria Joins the Team and Carlos Joins the Team from Reading A-Z . T...

To help the students remember the different types of soil - topsoil, sand, and clay - the students created a snack of dirt! They started by ...

My teammate, Mrs. Timms, did a demonstration for all of first grade last week over the attributes of soil. She started with an empty contain...

A few weeks ago, as a part of our study of fables, we read The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The students then created foldables to retell the beginni...

While shopping at Mardel the other day (seems to be an almost weekly stop), I found a great addition and subtraction resource - Dice Domes ...

EZSchool has a free fact family game online that students use to build four related addition and subtraction problems. The game gives the p...

In our district, this week has been designated as "College Week." Our counselor has set up many great activities for the students ...

In science this week we are learning about the different types of soils, their properties, and how they are used. To compare and contrast th...

Each day during calendar we count the number of days we have been in school. We first count them using straws in a place value pocket chart ...

Thank you to Carrie at A First Grade Teachers Passions and Obsessions for creating a recording sheet to go along with our Dominoes Doubles...

My teammate, Mrs. Timms, had an excellent idea of how to get the students to visualize addition doubles. We use dominoes as manipulatives to...

Yesterday our class visited our district's Nature Center. The students rotated through various learning areas including the pond, the ve...

Last week we worked on sorting words into conceptual groups. One of the sorts we did was to identify living and non-living things. This was ...

Look who won first place for first grade in PTA's pumpkin decorating contest! We are so proud of you!