First Grade Lyons' Den

We're continuing to learn about nocturnal animals.  We brainstormed a list of nocturnal animals, completed an Owls, Can, Have, Are works...

We completed some informational writing on how to carve a pumpkin.  The kids and I walked through the steps, talked about sequencing words, ...

Today we began learning about bats.  We talked about our schema and wrote down on Post-Its what we already knew. Kids will continue to ...

Here are a few pumpkin diagrams.  Just like our apple diagrams, the kids COULD NOT use scissors!!   I think they came out quite wel...

Here's more of the work we did with Spiders.  We talked about schema (our background knowledge) and wrote what we already knew on Post-I...

JoJo has been entertaining us the last couple of weeks with some magic tricks!  Here he is at work.

We completed this work last week but I wanted to show you our finished work.  We read informational books on squirrels and then read the Sca...

We've been reading informational books on spiders. Today we completed Spiders Can, Have, Are. The kids will be writing in their ...

Here are some pumpkins I painted!!  This has become an annual activity for me.  Just my luck though.  I bought 6 this weekend to find that 2...

Meet Teddy!!