Look What’s Happening in Room 102!

Our class has been reading Folk Tales. One of our first ones was Little Red Hen. We learned about storyboard and made one together. We used it a few times to retell Little Red Hen. We also made our own picture story maps. Check out our work and our voicethread. [...]

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We have been reading Maurice Sendak’s classic story “Where the Wild Things Are” in class. We have enough books so that each student can have a copy in front to them. On Wednesday afternoons our 4th grade Reading Buddies come to our class. Last week we read the story together and then [...]

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We’ve been practicing our reading fluency by doing a Reader’s Theater. This is our first try at this. It was a challenge for us to learn how to follow along so we would know when we had to speak. We worked on using expression in our voices, too. Congratulations to everyone. [...]

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Grade One has been busy designing book covers for some unfamiliar stories. I read aloud Abuella by Arthur Dorros the other day. The pictures are by Elissa Kleven. I had the cover of the book blocked with a piece of construction paper so that the children could design their own book cover. [...]

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Grade One loves to read and have stories read aloud to them by their teacher. Here are some of our favorite stories. Have you read any of them?


Make a Smilebox slideshow

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Check out this Spelling Bee website. You can practice your spelling with exercises that provide audio support with simple passages. You need to type in the correct spelling of the words that go into the blanks. The nice thing is that you can choose your grade level. My students can choose [...]

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Grade One wrote a Book Review together of this new book by Nick Bland.
The Very Cranky Bear
by Nick Bland
A zebra, a lion, a moose and a sheep want to play in the den of a bear.  The bear woke up and roared at them to get out.  The bear was very cranky. It made us [...]

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Catherine was the first student in our class to choose her favorite book to put on our Shelfari Book shelf. To read her review go to our Shelfari book shelf on the left sidebar and then click on the book The Diary of a Worm. Then click on “my copy”. Catherine [...]

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Dear Boys and Girls,
I found another website called “Roy the Zebra” that I think you might enjoy.  it is a reading website with stories about a zebra named Roy.  You can read them by yourself or with your Mom or Dad.  Click here to go to the website.  You can watch/listen to me read Part [...]

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Hello First Graders,
My foot is doing better.  I am taking good care of myself.  I want to share a cool reading website I found with you.  I think you will like it.  Watch my video and you will see what you can do.  This is my first try at doing a screencast. A screencast [...]

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