Kevin Henkes Author Study- D.G.
Kindergarten and First Grade Lesson Plans for I Was So Mad by Mercer Mayer. This Little Critter book is great for the beginning of the year. I love using this picture book to discuss emotions plus students practice predicting, making connections, and more! Check out the STEM activity, too!
It's March, which means we are pushing our kids to get them right where they need to be by the end of the year. If you are like me, you'...
Laura Numeroff Author Study
first grade teacher blog
The end of the school year is upon us… what does this mean? We are packing our weeks full of fun activities to keep the kids motivated ...
I was inspired by this pin on Pinterest: { source } *Aside: I just love Sarah Cooley's blog, First Grader ...at last! She is so ve...
I'm a first grade teacher in Oregon. This class blog serves as a digital scrapbook of student work through text, pictures and video.
I've been very fortunate to have our literacy coach, Barb Golub, work with me through our current writing unit. To those of you who know her, don't worry folks, she's looking for an awesome new Twitter handle and once she has one, I'll be sure to link it here! Together we've been looking in
Children's activity and craft templates.
Welcome to part 4 of the series, Teaching with Tomie dePaola books: Responding to Literature. In this post I’ll walk you through some of the ways I have my students write about what they are reading during our Tomie dePaola author study. As we transition to Common Core and implement new writing frameworks in my district our […]
The Easter Egg book activities unit with read aloud companion printables, reading comprehension worksheets, literacy lesson ideas, and a craft
I read to you.
Hello Everyone! I'm going to start of today with a little picture. This is one of the chimneys on my house! Last week we got struck ...
Interesting . I'm two days into my OCEAN unit...and I'm finding that my kids have an UNCANNY amount of SCHEMA for Oceans....due to SPONGE ...
Creative and hands-on Tomie dePaola book activities for teaching author's viewpoint, problem/solution, cause and effect and more.
Amazing FREEBIES for Amazing TEACHERS - The CheekyCherubs
Hello Everyone! Hope you're about to have a funfilled weekend! During tutoring today, one of my little sweeties reminded me of the cutest ...
First Grade Fanatics: September 2011
Browse over 120 educational resources created by Stacy Tessena in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.
