As a part of our research over the garden habitat, one of the grandparents from our school who just happens to be a garden expert, visited w...

Dr. Perotti, a professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, taught a lesson to all of the first graders about the brain as a part of B...

As a part of our writing program, the students wrote to describe an apple. They first thought of questions they had about apples such as: ...

As we studied the interdependce of animals and thier habitats, we took a close look at earthworms. The students created a Circle Map to shar...

During our study of plants, the students created plant diagrams. They labeled the parts and their functions. The diagrams were added to our ...

I recently received a free one year trial of Samson's Classroom online reading program to give away! I will be choosing a winner on Fr...

First Grade had their annual Egg Hunt today behind the school library. The students raced around finding eggs and then enjoyed a treat of po...

On Tuesdays and Thursdays our class is fortunate to have an intern, Mrs. Sanford, from Dallas Baptist University assist in our class for a f...

In science, we created a Brace Map to identify the parts of a plant and their functions. We discussed how a plant is a system and that the p...

This week we began a new research project. The students are learning more about how to use a variety of sources to find factual answers to q...

To introduce our study of plants and the garden habitat, we created a KWL Chart on our Promethean Board. The students first shared what they...

To teach about parts of a set, the students again used M&Ms. I would instruct the students to pull out a certain number of M&Ms of t...

To introduce the students to the concept of certain and impossible, I gave each student a bag of M&M candy. I told the students that the...

At the conclusion of our ocean study, we were fortunate to be able to visit the SeaLife Aquarium in Grapevine. Thank you to our PTA for fun...

During a computer lesson, the students used their ocean research notes to create a computer slide in Pixie 2 about their ocean animal. They ...

As I blogged about before , our fantastic Instructional Media Specialist worked with all of the first grade students in small groups to rese...