Category Archives: 1st Grade
All About Me With iPads!
Today I worked with Theresa Harris, the librarian at Glen Allen Elementary School to make All About Me flags with 1st graders. The 1st graders were talking about patriotic symbols so we thought this was the perfect time to combine Social Studies and the iPads! This was the first time that they had used the …
All About Me With iPads!
Today I worked with Theresa Harris, the librarian at Glen Allen Elementary School to make All About Me flags with 1st graders. The 1st graders were talking about patriotic symbols so we thought this was the perfect time to combine Social Studies and the iPads! This was the first time that they had used the …
1st Grade Coin Value
First graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to find the value of coins up to $1.00 (SOL1.7b) and understand picture graphs (SOL1.14). Today students in Ms. Wingfield’s class practiced these skills using Google docs. First, to review the values of the coins and picture graphs I gave them a spreadsheet that you can…
1st Grade Time Slideshow
First graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning how to tell time using analog and digital clocks (SOL1.8). Today, we practiced telling time with analog clocks in Ms. French’s class. I gave each student a Google slideshow template that you can copy here. On the first slide, the students typed their names and we discussed…
1st Grade Famous Americans
First graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about famous Americans including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, and Benjamin Franklin (SOL1.2). Today students in Ms. Gerrard’s class used ABCYa! Storymaker to draw and write about a famous American of their choice. This easy-to-use webtool is a great…
1st Grade Earth & Sun Stories
First graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the Earth and the sun in science (SOL1.6), and they have been learning how to write complete sentences in English (SOL1.13d), so today they wrote Earth & Sun stories with Storymaker. Storymaker gives students a fun way to write and illustrate stories on the computer. First…
1st Grade Winter Compound Words
First graders at Holladay Elementary are learning about winter in science (SOL1.7) and compound words in Language Arts (SOL1.6g), so today students in Ms. Schemmel’s class wrote and illustrated sentences with winter compound words. We used ABCYa! Storymaker, which is a great site for writing in the lower grades. First we brainstormed a list of…
1st Grade Needs & Wants
First graders at Davis Elementary have been reviewing needs and wants (SOL1.8), so today students in Ms. Gerrard’s class created needs and wants slideshows using a webtool called Qwikslides. Qwikslides has many great features: there’s no login, it’s fairly easy to use, and the finished slideshows work great on the iPads and laptops. First the…
1st Grade Math with Pixie
First graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about patterns in math (SOL1.17) and how to find one more or one less than a given number (SOL1.2). So today students in Ms. Schemmel’s class reviewed these skills with Pixie. This was their first lesson with Pixie, so we started by learning how to make a…
1st Grade Past Present Comics
First graders at Davis Elementary have been studying past and present (SOL1.1), so today students in Ms. Long’s class created past/present comics using StoryboardThat. First we helped them log into Google classroom where I posted the link. Then I showed them how to search for a background from the past and a background from the…
