In math we have been learning to measure using non-standard units. In the computer lab, the students drew three lines of varying length in K...

Congratulations to Miss Nelson from Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera for winning a year's subscription to Samson's Classroom...

I recently coordinated an Earth Day Book Swap for our school as a way to promote recycling and reusing what we already have. Students were a...

During Social Studies, we talked about the importance of Earth Day and the need to take care of it not only on this special day but everyday...

In science, the students have been learning about various life cycles. One of the life cycles was of a chicken. Below is an example of one o...

The students created these cute life cycles of frogs on a pond. The printables for the life cycle can be found on DLTK Kids .

In our science lab we have been watching tadpoles as they change into frogs. It has been nice for the students to be able to see first-hand ...

Last week we learned to measure length with non-standard units. In one of our lessons, the students worked together to make predictions abou...

On our visit to the library on Friday our Instructional Media Specialist, Mrs. Thornton, surprised the class with a new read-aloud. She read...

In the computer lab, the students used Pixie 2 to create a plant diagram. They first used the paint bucket feature to create a cloud backgro...

My teammate, Mrs. Timms, who plans science for our team, taught all of first grade how to make a terrarium. Using soda bottles cut in half, ...

My teammate, Ms. Branch, shared an engaging math lesson on fact families that went perfectly with our garden theme. Each student traced a fl...

Using our Promethean Board, the students wrote various addition and subtraction word problems and then took turns solving them by drawing pi...

Thank you to April Larremore, our district's Kinder/First Grade Strategist, for giving our class an electronic Jeopardy game. The studen...

Our Instructional Media Aide, Mrs. Johnson, taught the first graders a lesson on how to use our library database, Horizon, to search for spe...

I've already written several posts about how we conduct research in our class but I wanted to share some pictures of my little researche...