Welcome April!

We have had a busy March in First Grade!  We spent a lot of time this month working on our animal research projects.  And did our firsties work hard on them!!! Here are a few pictures. Our next reading and writing unit will be Fancy Nancy and Henry and Mudge!  We are looking forward to using "fancy" words and vocabulary. ...

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This upcoming week is a celebration of reading and Dr. Seuss.  Right to Read Week always occurs the week of Dr. Seuss' birthday.  Sharpsburg Primary thought we would dress up for the occasion.  The only problem with this is that it says "February 29," which does not exist this year.  My apologies.  Friday is March 1st.  Each...

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Our last week in January

Our firsties enjoyed 4 different Pigeon books this week.  Here they are: We worked with the students on looking at all different text features that help the author/illustrator tell the story more effectively.  Here are some of the examples that we looked at: underlined text for emphasis   the use of all capital letters...

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Author Study

Hello everyone! Hope you enjoyed your three day weekend!  To celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday, we placed the events of his life into a timeline.  Here are some book ideas you might enjoy about this topic. We are very excited to announce that we will begin an author study of Mo Willems in our writing class!  If you...

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Preposition Snomen

Hello everyone!  Hope you are staying warm during this cold time of year! This week we used snowmen to help learn about prepositions. Mrs. Eshman came up with a great activity that helped our students understand what prepositions mean.  They created a snowman scene using her directions (including prepositions).  It looked...

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A look back...A look forward

I hope everyone enjoyed their winter break!  I know it went very quickly in our house this year. Our last week of school before break was filled with lots of blue.  Pete the Cat blue, that is!  The whole building seemed to have a great time reading and writing about one of our favorite characters.  Here are just a few pictures...

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