Tag: 1st grade

  • Laura Numeroff writing lesson

    Laura Numeroff writing lesson

    As a teacher, I loved working with Laura Numeroff’s books. The kids loved listening to her books and the antics of the different animals. In my second year of teaching I got a stuffed animal of her Mouse from the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books. Now that I have my own kids…

  • Land Animals Unit

    Land Animals Unit

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    Apologia Science is a wildly popular homeschool science curriculum and a great spine for building your science lessons. When my kids were in elementary school we used them, and we I’ve created a lot of lessons for our land animals unit, and I wanted to put them all together in one place rather than scattered…

  • Picture books made into movies

    Picture books made into movies

    I love picture books, even when my kids were in high school I would occasionally check out picture books that did a good job of conveying what I wanted them to learn in a lesson. I also love Books made into movies, but when my kids were the age we would have really done this,…

  • The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

    The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

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    Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…

  • Everything you need to know to get started with All About Reading

    Everything you need to know to get started with All About Reading

    The one thing I thought was scary about homeschooling was teaching my kids how to read.  I taught first grade, and an entire class full of students how to read, and yet I still found the idea scary.  Probably because learning how to read is so fundamental to everything we do.  I tried a few…