First Grade Blue Skies

Now soaring in Kindergarten

The Ugly Pumpkin

The Ugly Pumpkin The Ugly Pumpkin is the perfect book for that awkward time between Halloween and Thanksgiving that flies by!  It is a sweet story that is a fresh take on the traditional classic, The Ugly Duckling. My students LOVED the book and making the craft made it even that much more fun! The author of the story is Dave Horowitz and if it’s

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Creepy Carrots

Creepy Carrots Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds is one of my new favorite fall books and for a good reason.  It is just creepy enough (if you read it the way I read it) that makes kids LOVE it!  My students were silent as I read, you know that kind of silent…like when you know you HAVE them!  At the last minute we made our

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