Reading starts with phonemic awareness -- the ability to notice, think about, and manipulate the individual sounds in words or phonemes. Pho...

Our Tuesday folders issued by PTO are brown in an effort to become more environmentally friendly. To lessen the amount of paperwork many of ...

Today we built towers to better understand least, greatest and between!

Today we played a fun game called "Bunny Hop" to reinforce counting on a number line.

I will be reading with all 6 reading groups EVERY day!

We had a lot of fun with this! After we read Numblers by Suse MacDonald, we decided we could hide number's, too! Enjoy our first slidesh...

Here are a few helpful tidbits about the yellow homework folders: •handed out every Monday (or Tuesday if there was no school on Monday) •th...

Along with exploring the pattern blocks with our hands and imaginations, we made patterns with the blocks and even recorded some of our idea...

I subscribed to a publication called Scholastic News . We will be getting 4 issues each month. Each one comes with an additional activity to...

We had a wonderful 1st week of school. It was nice to see familiar faces as well as our 3 new friends to Mark Twain! We spent last week adju...

We have been finding new ways to better learn about each other every day this week and have found a way to graph this information. Today w...

The spider climber is very exciting for 1st graders because they are on the "big kid" playground now...and that means playing on t...

Every day after recess we cool down on the carpet while listening to my read-aloud chapter book I share with the class. Our first novel is a...

Today we played our first Everyday Math Game, Penny Dice . The main objective of the game was to introduce game playing essential agreements...

Today I felt brave enough to start our reading groups and job routine! I have not tested all the new kids yet (I have most of the ending yea...

Dear Parents: In order to ensure a safe and orderly dismissal and so that we can account for every child, we respectfully ask all children i...

We took a moment to share our favorite summertime memories and recorded them on paper plates! There seemed to be a lot of boating and wate...

I told the kids about Prince today. Kids have a lot of tattles/stories to tell...and I am not always available to hear them! I told them to ...

Today we put the finishing touches on our self-portraits we created on the 1st day of school after reading a wonderful story, I Like Me! C...

Today we reviewed consonants and vowels and at the same time practiced using tally marks for the vowels/consonants on our name tags and a fr...