First Grade Lyons' Den

Our focus this week has been, "Good writers write bold leads."  We've looked at and read MANY examples.  The kids have been p...

Now that's a post title!  We've been learning a lot about informational text and how these books are set up. Students have been lear...

Here a just a few pics from last Friday.  The kids celebrated Harvest Arts Festival.  They listened to music, created collages, and at the e...

For Halloween week, the kids have been so calm and settled.  Lucky me!!  Here's what we've been up to. We wrote our opinions on if...

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.