Here is a picture of the Pinterest inspired Valentine's Day Treats I made for my students. The tag says "Thank you for making First...

As mentioned in previous posts, we have been learning about space over the last few weeks. The main purpose of our space unit was to provide...

As a part of our writing program, Write From the Beginning , the students wrote to explain why or why not they would want to be an astronaut...

In math we have been working on solving addition and subtraction word problems using a variety of strategies. One of the strategies we use i...

In reading, we read the Cherokee tale of "How the Milky Way Came to Be." In this tale, a family was collecting cornmeal to store f...

In science we have been learning about the difference between night and day. This went perfectly with our two week unit over space. As a par...

Over the last several weeks we have been learning about space in both ELA and Science. We have also been learning more about long vowels. To...

To celebrate the 100th day of school, the students created a 100 day snack. Parents supplied a variety of items (thank you!) for the student...

We celebrated our 100th day of school a few weeks back but I haven't had time to post about it yet. So, here goes! We started our day by...

The students recently started publishing their own blog, hosted by KidBlog. You can visit the blog here . For their first entry, the student...

In math we have been reviewing how to use doubles addition and subtraction sentences to solve other math facts. The students created doubles...

As a part of our writing program, Write From the Beginning, the students are learning to write to explain why. This week the students wrote ...

To assess the students understanding of main ideas, we read I Fly Hot-Air Balloons from Reading A-Z . As we read, we charted important detai...