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Hello Everyone!!! Thank you so much for all the sweet messages concerning our sweet little Lola.  You all are the best! We all continue to grow stronger. Continued thoughts and prayers are appreciated! In class we have been so busy writing expository text during workshop. We started our unit with writing about what we know best...ourselves. My little writers had so much fun brainstorming, organizing their thoughts, editing, rewriting, and finally publishing! From there we went on to "How To..." writing. We started that off with  Oreo eating  fun. How do you eat your OREO? We brought these little ideas to publication as well.  Here are a few pics! These little writers love sharing their work!! Munch! Munch!! Kids are experts at so many things!!! For all the printable templates for Expository writing,  CLICK HERE!! For the templates used in our OREO books, CLICK HERE!! Now on to some other First Grade Fun!  We are finishing up our measurement unit in math, an...

Hello Everyone! My sincere apologies for not posting lately...  I had to take a little time off as our family has experienced a very sad loss. My nephew's little baby girl, Lola, has passed away from Krabbe disease. She was only 13 months old, but brought such joy and light to all who knew her. We have all learned so much about life and love through her.  K rabbe disease  (also called globoid cell leukodystrophy) is a degenerative disorder that affects the nervous system. It is caused by the shortage (deficiency) of an enzyme called galactosylceramidase. This enzyme deficiency impairs the growth and maintenance of  myelin , the protective covering around certain nerve cells that ensures the rapid transmission of nerve impulses in the brain.   Krabbe disease  is part of a group of disorders known as leukodystrophies, which result from the loss of myelin (demyelination).  Both my nephew and his sweet wife are so devastated, but at the same time are so st...

  Hello Everyone! I am coming to the end of my Spring Break already! It was wonderful to have time with my family.  We got to spend a little bit of rainy, cold time down in Galveston---I have been known to sit on the beach in the rain!!  I just love the sound of the surf---relaxes me!!! But it's time to get back in school mode!  I want to share a bit of how our owl unit turned out.  We were able to do so many of the activities from the owl unit I shared a while back, and display some great work for open house! Here are a few pictures! We've been working on adding dialogue to our writing, so we decided to add some speech bubbles to our Owl Babies!   We ended up using bananas and Bugles for our owl snacks!! We made some cute owl bags to hold all of our owl work.  Patterns are in the updated unit! We had fun exploring feathers!! We learned so much about and through the owl unit!!  If you need a very comprehensive unit on owls CLICK HERE!!! :) If you ...