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Hello Everyone! Happy Spring!!! Some of you are still in the grip of winter with snow and ice!  Here in Texas, the temps are warming up, the trees are budding, and there are flowers everywhere! I am such a warm weather girl, I can't wait to put coats and sweaters away! Springtime in first grade is just as exciting.   The kids are really becoming independent learners and so into researching things they want to know about.  In writing we are working our way through a writing to teach unit.  Kids love to share what they know.  T hey are experts at so many things!  Our first chapter book is based on what kids know most about...themselves!!!  We are using most of what Lucy Calkins suggests in her Units of Study. The first chapter books turned out pretty well. Here are a few pages of the published books. The kids were so proud to share them!!! I have shared the templates and information for this written expression project before, but I have added a couple of...

Hello Everyone! My apologies for not posting for a bit, but spring break is here and I have absolutely been chillin'!  It has been a crazy rainy week and with the hubs working, I have been just been catching up on some reading, cleaning, movies, cleaning, cooking, oh, and more cleaning. Don't feel sorry for me!!! We do have plans to get away this weekend!  So I thought I'd go ahead and share tonight!  Before break we had our annual Open House!  I posted last time about what our theme was going to be...Bald Eagles!  I can not tell you how much we learned about our National bird!  The kids did a great job of showing off all their knowledge and application to their families!  Here are a couple of pics of finished products. Life cycle! If I had eagle wings... First graders cut out hundreds of their handprints to create this "Handsome" bird! How does your arm span compare to an eagle's wingspan? We kept a log of our observations from a live eagle cam! Throu...