Happy Earth Day Songs……yep….written and sung by someone named Puglisi

Here are some songs I am sneaking here an Earth day gift to you:

Hearts From Home, 100 days of school

Is it really time for Valentines and the 100th Day of School?
Both, as always.

For the troops we all made Love Bugs and sent these Valentines to them via the Hearts From Home project. Ms. Wolfson and my class often team up so we teamed to construct something for those we hope are kept safe as [...]

From My Son…at four…we learn what a child sees

“Martin Luther King, Junior” by my son at 4, in Answer to “What Can Kids Understand”
When my son was very young he fell in love with watching two videos, The Snowman and Our Friend Martin. Both were daily repertoire pieces for him. I thought the Martin Luther King Jr. video was wayyyyyy over his head.
Luca, [...]

Change, It’s Not Strange…

Change, It’s Not Strange.
Change….a song in memory of a little girl who loved her art, and my class too!
She planned to be an artist.
Bound to earth in wheelchair……held to life by her joy in being alive.
My 1st grade is learning this song as it has done for many, many years now in conjunction with our [...]

“He’s Singing Our Song”

Friday Dr. Puglisi began his weekly visits to initiate PE activities, songs, science and the project “Exploring Space and Time.” We learned a bunch of songs he WROTE!
The first song we learned was called “Days of the Week”
The words go like this:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saaaatuuurday…
The week have seven, not eleven, we can [...]

Go Away Big Green Monster

So we say…….(finding this from someone that left it as a link, wow)
We will need to try our version. But….perhaps with wigs…

Today we made pictures of our Big Green Monsters in 1st grade ( preparing for upcoming mask making)
And found this too, great, reversing!

A Baobab Told Me……

It’s a busy week in 1st grade anymore and it sails by in a blink. There are so many aspects to this for 1st graders including acquiring the reading skills to bank our new tree vocabulary. ( tree, bark, branches, leaf, leaves, wood, forest, seasons, winter, spring, summer, fall…so on) This is actually my front [...]

I Call My Hand Gentle

As the year starts we teach basic rules to help children be safer and happier in their interactions. They tried so hard today to listen. One of my main ideas this second day of working together is we learn from our mistakes. And I’m really impressed with the idea that we can speak in affirmation. [...]

“Our House”

Welcome to the work of our 1st grade in Oxnard, CA as we learn about the home, community, and the way houses hold the family we love. Our current theme in reading is “Home Sweet Home.”
Last week we learned two songs. One was “This is The Way We Build Our House.” It told about [...]

Portraits of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

(this was never returned to my class, a book assembled to be shared-we hope it was appreciated as we sent it to the school board)
Today 1st graders made their Dr. King Portraits. Not an easy likeness to catch. We hope perhaps in this work is something that strikes you. The children wrote below the portrait [...]