A while back we saw some very cool displays in the hallway outside of one of the 1st grade classrooms: * We wanted to find out what neat stuff they were learning that would lead to such cool displays. So, we asked their amazing teacher, Miss Dessereaux, if we could interview some of her students [...]

In writing we have been talking about how memories can give us great ideas to write about. We have also been working on using interesting, descriptive words (like “enormous“) in place of boring words (like “big“). * Here is a slideshow of some writing we did about special memories from this past summer. We tried to [...]

We have been learning a lot about nonfiction texts. These type of texts are written to explain things and share real information. Nonfiction texts have special features to help the reader understand the information.  Here is a VoiceThread we made explaining nonfiction features and how to use them: * Last year, Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff [...]

We have been reading and writing nonfiction, or informational, texts. The purpose of nonfiction texts is to explain things and give information. To write a short informational paragraph, it is important to present the information clearly. You want the reader to understand what you are explaining.  Here are the steps we used to write our [...]