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Happy FriYay! Did somebody say “Friday”? You know what that means…time for my “Five For Friday” gratitude! So many wonderful things to be grateful for, so let’s go! To tell the truth, the last couple of weeks have been a lot about family and less about school. We are winding down our year at school and with that comes so… Read More
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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
Hello friends…..just stopping by with a mid week check in and wanted to share with you the cutest lesson we did today on PREPOSITIONS! Now if you’ve tackled this skill with your firsties, you know it’s not the easiest skill for them to grasp! We’ve been working in these little rascals for a while now….we made this anchor chart a… Read More
I hate grading writing! Wouldn’t it be great to have an easy way to grade writing? Keep reading, cause I’ve got you covered! So it’s that time of the year when the firsties are finally getting a handle on writing. I’ve introduced a couple of different types of writing to them….specifically, writing a friendly letter and informational writing. And they… Read More
Halloween costumes for teachers is always at the top of my search when I start planning for our classroom Halloween party. My team loves to dress up each year in something cute that the kids will recognize. If you need a few ideas, here are some quick, easy, and inexpensive ideas for teacher costumes. Before you get started…if you’re… Read More
