As a part of our study over David Shannon books, we read Too Many Toys and A Bad Case of Stripes. As you can read about in previous posts, t...

After reading Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students wrote about the main character, Spencer, on a person template. They wrote how he ...

After reading Alice the Fairy by David Shannon, the students wrote about the various character traits of the main character on a person temp...

Continuing with our study of David Shannon books, we read A Bad Case of Stripes. The students created foldables again to write the beginning...

As a part of an author study of David Shannon, we read Too Many Toys. The students created a three-flap foldable to record the beginning, mi...

During our Daily 5 time, our main focuses are Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Working on Words. During Working on Words time, the student...

Each morning when the students arrive they begin Read to Self  or Read to Someone from Daily 5. I try to have the students read for 15-20 mi...

The students created various animals on one inch grid paper using color tiles. They the colored their animal on another sheet of grid paper....