A couple of years ago I had a periodic blog series of favorite things. (Here's a quick round-up of some of my favorite favorites .) I de...

This year in first grade has been like a Dickens novel - it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... Well, maybe not the worst ...

Two kids stand in the blocks center, looking at what is on the floor. Cube blocks, our lids , some checkers from an old game, and letters ma...

Earlier this month I read about peg angels on Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning. I knew we needed to do this sometime. This week...

We were counting groups of seven. We counted cubes, chips, and lids. We tried several different ways to count. Same object, same color ...

This week we used that collection of lids again. We used tape to create three letters on the floor. The letters related to words that were t...

My stash of lids found their way in the classroom again this past week. I placed them in a center to be counters - along with some cube bloc...

I've been saving lids for a while. Saving them with no plans for what to do with them. Well, this week I used some of them! I planned...