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Comparing Long Ago and Today is always a fun lesson with my students. They are fascinated at the differences between their life today and kids long ago! We started our lesson with a non fiction powerpoint story that compares life long ago to today. This is a great story because it gives lots of examples, with real photos, of how… Read More
Are you looking for some new winter activities? How about a mini unit on Evergreen Trees? This is a great topic to study with your kids in the snowy month of January since the evergreen stays green all winter! Who says you can only make evergreens in December, right? So here’s a new take on the old Christmas tree! The perfect… Read More
Learning about animal habitats in first grade is always a fun and exciting activity. Students love learning about different animals and this lesson makes it even more engaging when they get to build their own habitat! For this lesson, I told my students they would be choosing an animal to research and write about. We’ve been working on… Read More
Hey friends! Last week we had fun learning about trees. We follow Journeys and our weekly story was a chapter from “Poppleton Forever” called “The Tree”. 🌲 It was the perfect opportunity to combine Reading with Science, so we learned all about trees! Our comprehension strategy that we were focusing on this week was Story Structure – Characters, Setting and… Read More
