The students wrote to describe spiders with the help of Thinking Maps. After writing, we had an art lesson on how to draw a spider web. The ...

The students worked on using their Thinking Maps to come up with more details to describe objects. This time they described a bat. Instead o...

To practice building larger numbers, the students used printable base ten blocks to build the first letter of their name. They then counted...

The students worked in small groups to create skip counting puzzles. Each group was given a sentence strip, a beginning number, and a rule c...

To assess the students' ability to represent numbers in various forms, they created candy corn place value art. Each student was given a...

The students used Thinking Maps to organize their ideas of how to describe a pumpkin. They then wrote three sentences using those Maps. Each...

While learning about the attributes of shapes, we discussed that the attributes stay the same no matter how large or small you make that sha...

The students brainstormed ways to describe an apple on a Circle Map. They then used those ideas to build a Tree Map. The Tree Map was used t...

We made cookies to assess the students' understanding of fiction and non-fiction with all of the first grade teachers team teaching. We ...

We read The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds to introduce the attributes of shapes. After reading the students were each given a random s...