K Pigeons

Kindergartners met the Pigeon, and we discussed how the rule about him not driving the bus relates to some of the rules we have at school. Then they practiced following directions by drawing him!

You can draw him at home by following these instructions from Mo Willems:

Three of These Things with Grade 1

A big part of information literacy is being able to recognize patterns and to categorize facts, sources, etc. We're starting to work on these skills in first grade. 

Our latest lesson is one of my favorites; it involves the original Three of These Things from Sesame Street. Original as in from the 1970s. I showed several sample videos to the kids, and they raised their hands as soon as they figured out what didn't belong. Here's one of them:

Then it was the students' turn to pretend they were segment producers and come up with their own "Three of These Things" example. Can you tell what doesn't belong?