I love FALL activities!!! Here is one we did with our first graders! The pictures turned out sooooo sweet. THIS IS THE HALLWAY DISPLAY. So funny... each students' personality came out for this project!! Each student had to re-write the poem of the month. It was called Fall Leaves. I have included a close up of the poem and the book I used to get the idea. We took pictures of each student with a leaf on their head. After they wrote their poem they got leaves that the poem talked about.....1…

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4 cute rhyming poems that kids will have fun learning.

Classroom Guide: The Dot and Ish by Peter H. Reynolds - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document discusses Peter H. Reynolds' books The Dot and Ish and how they aim to encourage creative expression and bravery in sharing ideas. The Dot is about getting started with creativity and exploring ideas in many ways. Ish is about defending one's ideas when facing criticism and allowing creativity to flow. Reynolds hopes the books will inspire creative…

Discover the benefits of teaching POETRY to young children! Learn how to incorporate simple & appealing poems throughout your day! These low-prep, easy to use activities will help students achieve your literacy goals!

Build phonological skills with this rhyming activity. Erase Me is fun to use for an all about me unit and is super easy and quick to prepare.

I found the best way for my children to understand poetry was to explore poetry with art. Read and see if you can find something in the poem to illustrate.

We have been having so much fun learning about weather and seasons. I think every year my students always love science and this year seems to be no different. I like starting out with weather as our first science unit because the experiments are really easy for the first graders this early in the year and they are all low prep. I am all about keeping it simple. Our first experiment was after we had learned about the water cycle. I wanted to have them experience evaporation. It's not able to…

Anyone who has raised a boy can relate to the Dirt on My Shirt poem that I stumbled across recently. When I saw it memories of my son and my grandsons came to mind. It is like they are immune to …

Hello Everyone!! Happy April and Happy Poetry Month!! Poetry is one of the parts of our writing curriculum that I look forward to so much!...