End of Year Field Trip

To the next grade! What better way to ease the worries about going to the next grade….than to go on a field trip to that classroom?? For our field trip, Nicole’s class (second grade) took a field trip to Melissa’s class (third grade). The next day, Melissa’s class took a field trip to fourth grade! […]

End of the Year School Celebration

Lights, Camera, Action! Welcome to the premiere of: Our End of the Year Learning Celebration! You are cordially invited to see our class and how we put on a world premiere show for our fans. Enjoy the show! First, the director had the student celebrities fill out a job application for which committee they would […]

Animal Research Paper

Do your students complete an animal research project? I want to share with you some ways I teach about research writing using a writing workshop approach. Before doing so, here are some things to keep in mind: Almost ALL of the research, writing, and reading is done IN CLASS. We work as a class, students […]

Fractions

Thursday night was a big night for the Chicago Bulls. They won their game and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with the Miami Heat. Well, we used that as an opportunity to celebrate in our classroom! We told our students that if the Bulls won, they were to come to school dressed up in […]

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta!

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Did you celebrate with your students today? Since we have a high percentage of Hispanic students and I have a Hispanic teacher’s aide with LOTS of artifacts…we had a GREAT fiesta today! We started by learning about the Mexican culture and the significance of Cinco de Mayo. My instructional assistant had […]

Mother’s Day Portraits

Directions: Press play on the YouTube video and listen to the music and you read this post! No cheating! Only scroll down the screen when the song is playing! :) So today we started  our Mother’s Day Projects and began the same way with our students. We listened to the song, visualized the words, drew […]