Wednesday was our first official day of school. I love that we start on Wednesday, it gives me time to ease back into our school routin...

     Last week we focused on characters, their feelings, and how story setting affected their feelings. On Monday and Tuesday, we read two d...

     During the first week of school, our reading and writing activities centered around the book, Pirates Go To School  by Corinne Demas. A...

We read Snowmen at Night  and then created a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast our class with the Snowmen. Then we made these cute snowm...

We read The Grinch who Stole Christmas  by Dr. Seuss. We used the story to focus on characters and motives.  We used it to review tex...

We have been learning about characters and their motives for doing and saying things in stories to help us better understand what we read a...