If your classes have been anything like mine, then you have students that finish work in a wide range of time. One challenge is deciding wha...

When conducting our ocean research this year, my students and I needed to find a way to record the information we were learning from inform...

Today I want to share a cute project that my class completed to celebrate Frog and Toad . My students LOVE the Frog and Toad stories and ...

As I was looking for a way to teach the concept of the central message of a story, I stumbled upon some of my favorite books… Frog and Toad!...

Happy February! Wow! I can't believe that January is already over. This has been a whirlwind start to 2015. During the winter months I l...

This week my students have shifted their writing from narrative to informational/Explanatory writing. They have been LOVING this change. We ...

As I navigate through the first grade Engage New York curriculum, I realized that my students need a visual to remember all of the great su...

Happy Sunday! Today I wanted to share the narrative writing rubric that I use in my classroom. Students need to know where their writing sta...

At the beginning of the year I decided that my students needed resources to assist them in becoming independent writers. I developed some...

We have continued our practice of Main Topic and Key Details with various texts within our first grade  classroom. During our exploration we...

Welcome! To get things started I would like to share a fun song that I have created to help my first graders with the complicated task of un...