The students created an elf on Monday using the pattern from Deanna Jump's Polar Express unit . Fellow teachers, if you have not seen it...

As a part of our unit on holidays around the world, we read and then sang "O Christmas Tree" with the book version by Debbie Traf...

As a part of our Social Studies unit on holidays around the world, we read The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola . We talked about ...

This is an idea that I got from Deanna Jump . In her Grinch Unit , she has several activities based off of the book How the Grinch Stole Chr...

Today we read It's Christmas, David! by David Shannon to discuss character traits. After reading and discussing David's behavior in...

To help the students understand related addition and subtraction problems, or fact families, they created Fact Family Wreaths with paper pat...

The students filled out reindeer applications today in writing. I got the application from The First Grade Teaching blog . As the students f...

Each year the first grade students make these adorable Holly Wreath ornaments out of puzzle pieces. This idea came from a former teammate an...

As a review of number patterns, the students created their own number lines on sentence strips using Holly Berries and Holly Leaves. The ber...

As a part of our study on money, we created two anchor charts as a class to help the students recognize the different values of coins and th...

Our multi-talented Instructional Media Specialist, Mrs. Thornton, taught all of the first graders a lesson on the role of Santa Claus around...

Last week the students had a fun homework assignment - decorate a holiday stocking. They could decorate the stockings however they wanted to...

On Wednesday and Thursday we read Merry Christmas, Strega Nona. As we read, the students identified and discussed how the various character...

This week we have been learning about the various coins, their identifying features, their values, and their equavalencies. To assess their ...

On Tuesday we read Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto to discuss character traits and to identify the elements of a story. First we watched the ...

One of my favorite Christmas books is Auntie Claus by Elise Primavera . The story is great to use for analyzing character traits. It is also...

While learning about number patterns, the students learned the strategy of using "jumping hills" on a number line to count the num...

To help the students understand the concept of addition and subtraction, we have been playing a game called "Shake Those Beans." E...