Fall Into First

 We had so much fun today! All day was filled with Candy Corn activities!  - ABC order - Art - Graphing and Data Analysis - Creating Wor...

Okay I know the picture stinks...I should have taken the picture before sending it through the laminator, OOPS! I will work on getting a bet...

With this Friday being the Friday before Halloween, our first grade team is having our Fall Party. I know it's a school day early but......

Now that second quarter has begun, my students have be given their "Calendar Companion". Let me tell you they were SO excited! (th...

  Whoooo Am I? We just spent some time learning about several different types of owls. The kids were so intrigued by them! After collecting ...

This is a short week for us so this week has been devoted to everything pumpkin! Today the students painted their own pumpkin patch, did a p...

Okay I know it's late but I am so excited about this I had to share before going to bed for the night (tomorrow is a teacher work-day fu...

Oh my goodness!!! I shared Unit 5 Math Core Standards with the other first grade teachers in my district and WOW are they amazing! I receive...

Between the unpacking, the notes, taking attendance, etc... mornings can be a little crazy! I like to have "Bellwork" ready to go...

  Click here to view my Unit 5 Math program . This unit includes everything you will need for 10 days of math instruction. I began developin...

 My absolute favorite type of candy during Fall is CANDYCORN! LOVE IT! To follow school district policy I don't have a "Halloween P...

Math Journal is a very important part of our daily math routine. I give each student a problem-of-the-day story problem. We read the problem...

 One of our Harcourt stories is Ants, so we made this fun project. We created a Venn Diagram comparing humans to ants and had so much fun cr...

I LOVE doing book studies with my higher-level students. We are currently reading "Frog and Toad Together" so I have created a Boo...

 Working with functional text is always so much fun! To finish our first quarter of school we made a mini-apple pie recipe and cooked apple ...

This quarter we worked on U.S. Symbols. We created this U.S. Passport to document our travels and the kids had so much fun. When we were don...

I have updated this link with a freebie! Click here to get there. "No, David" is one of our favorite books to begin the year or...

I am so excited to be joining the blogging community! I have spent years "blog stalking" so many AMAZING teachers and decided I wo...