Last week on International Day of Peace we participated in the Global Art Project Exchange , Let's All join Hands, by tracing our own ha...

Having fun while learning our color words in Spanish!

Today we talked about complimentary colors (colors opposite one another on the color wheel) and made some beautiful artwork at the same tim...

I'm sure you heard the news...we finally finished The Trumpet of the Swan and watched the movie yesterday. The kids loved it! Be sure t...

I see a snail, apple tree, octopus, apple, tornado, flower, clown, hermit crab and a sun! It's neat to see how differently they each sa...

In art ancillary the children learned about Piet Mondrian . They explored straight lines, primary colors, rectangles, squares and grids.

Today we made our own color wheels to help us learn the difference between primary and secondary colors.

Is there a baby in your house that eats baby food from a jar? If so, we could use 2 more jars to complete our class set! We use them for pai...

Today we read Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni. After being inspired by Matthew's Dream, we listened to classical music and painted ou...

Today we broke out the watercolors for the first time! We will be using these often and it is important to get the rules covered so that we ...

During reading groups, one of the "jobs" assigned was to weigh various things from our classroom using our pennies as a unit of m...

We finally got back to our reading groups today! With LDC the past 2 weeks and TPRI testing looming over our shoulders...it was nice to ge...

Today we played a new game, Penny Grab . Basically, the game was a fun way to add pennies together and to reinforce the idea that one penny...

Can you believe our official Everyday Math lesson today was on pennies? What luck...we have thousands of them at our disposal! We took a...

Apparently, we have quite a few millionaires in our class this year! I'm so happy to see so many of you were so rich with books over t...

Who knew counting pennies could be so much fun! The kids took turns counting the pennies into groups of 100 to make $1. By the end of each ...

Today we used dominoes to help us with our additions facts up to 9. It was interesting to see how differently the children organized their f...

Progress reports go out tomorrow. Since this is the beginning of the year, everyone will receive one. Later in the year I will only send ...

We have been learning to tell time...only by the hour right now. As the year goes on we will add to our repertoire of telling time skills b...

Today is the International Day of Peace. Mrs. Blakeslee's 5th grade GT students initiated their wall of peace outside her library classr...