"It's here! It's here!" Those would be the words of my students when our new ActivBoard was installed at the end of last w...

Last Thursday we had a great turnout for our annual Math and Science Night. Congratulations to Carmen for being a winner in the Math and Sci...

Last Friday the first grade teachers taught a joint lesson on how to bake cupcakes. I was out on this day so I do not have pictures but the ...

In honor of Presidents' Day, the students wrote why they would be a good president. I was proud that they used our Capturing Kids' S...

The students created place value posters in small groups. The students were in groups of three and each student had their own number card ra...

Last week the students practiced ordering larger numbers. To assess their individual knowledge, I gave each student a different number card....

As you can read about in my post titled Math Facts Checks, our grade learns various math facts each week. The students take a pre-check of ...

In science we have been learning about living and non-living. The students worked in small groups to sort various pictures into living and n...

We have been learning about compound words during grammar. As a check of their understanding of the concept, the students created a compound...

As a part of a lesson on how to follow multi-step directions, the students drew a map of familiar places in the school. After completing the...

In reading we have been learning to follow multi-step directions with picture cues. For these lessons, the students learned to draw tents an...

A few weeks ago we learned about camping. As an introduction to the theme, we made S'mores. As we made the S'mores, we talked about ...

Several months back our first grade team brainstormed various ways we could help our students review concepts. One of the ways we came up w...

For Valentine's Day, one of my students gave me a very funny gift... a teddy bear wearing a shirt saying "Mama Bear." So, you ...

We had our Valentine's Day Party on Tuesday. The students enjoyed tons of sweets and enjoyed reading the cards they brought for one anot...

The students made homemade Valentine's for their families with ping pong balls and paint. The students first drew and cut out a large he...

The first and third grade students performed a patriotic program at our PTA program Monday night. They did a fantastic job!

This week in math we are extending our knowledge of place value to numbers up to 99. We are continuing to work on identifying the number of...