The students worked in small groups to measure various objects around the room. They measured with a variety of units including Base Ten Blo...

Using the online program Tagxedo , the students typed words to describe their mother. They chose from one of the heart shapes and many color...

Last Tuesday I was honored to be chosen as Grand Prairie ISD's Elementary Teacher of the Year! There is a saying that individually we ar...

Friday first grade had a guest speaker to share information about her job in the promotions department of KISS FM radio. Ms. Guterriez, who ...

After reading A Bad Case of Stripes and Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students created Venn Diagrams to compare the stories. After cre...

While reading David Shannon books, we also learned about him as an author and illustrator. We watched a short interview with him from Schola...

As a part of our David Shannon author study, we read Too Many Toys. The students retold the beginning, middle, and end. They also completed ...

To learn about the elements and features of fiction story, we read various David Shannon books. One of the books we read was A Bad Case of S...

We visited the computer lab on Thursday so the students could research an inventor of their choice on their own. We use PebbleGo as our mai...

In Social Studies the students are learning about various inventors and their contributions to society. The first inventor they are learning...

This lesson is from a while back but I forgot to post about it. When we were learning about the attributes of 3D shapes, we visited the comp...

Last Thursday we visited Dallas Heritage Village . The students were able to see how people lived in the past. They viewed an old school, ho...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

The students read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle as a part of our author study and lessons on fiction story elements. After reading th...

Last week we conducted an author study of Eric Carle as a part of our unit on fiction texts and story elements. One of the books we read ...

In science the students have been learning about and comparing various animal life cycles. One of the animals they have learned about is the...

We have been observing the changes in tadpoles over the last several weeks in our science lab. Unfortunately they were not doing well in ...

A while back I stumbled across a site called A Story Before Bed . The site is intended for parents and grandparents to be able to record ...

The students researched facts about Cherry Blossoms during a mini-writing lesson. They then wrote the information they found on a Circle Map...

We research birds using PebbleGo and other online sources. The students then wrote down facts they learned on Tree Maps. They then used tho...