We are preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast that I do with my first grade students. We are making a class book of the images we have of the very first Thanksgiving. The students watched a great video on Unitedstreaming.com on the holiday of Thanksgiving. Then they created their pictures for our book. We used the cover and template I am sharing. Then they shared their pictures with the class and told why they think the first Thanksgiving celebration was special. This was a great lesson on adding social studies into our curriculum.

Halloween Fun in First Grade

Happy Halloween Everyone!! We are having a blast this week learning about pumpkins, bats, owls, spiders and Halloween. I am focusing this post on things I do the two days before Halloween- when I do let the kids talk about costumes and "scary" Halloween characters. I try to make it more of a fall celebration in the days prior to this. But all kids enjoy a little bit of fun at this time of year. So I let them talk about the things I usually ban- vampires, zombies, witches, ghosts- in a first grade fun manner. The first time anything gory comes into the conversation, I stop it. ha ha Have a great holiday!!