What is a stagecoach?

What do you do when your students ask you what is a stagecoach?
They have never watched Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman or Bonanza. So I drew a picture for them.

Clearly I need to take horse drawing lessons. This picture had my students and me laughing quite a bit.

Fairy Tales

We've been doing so many fun things in first grade these past few weeks, that I wasn't sure where to start...

Recently, we compared different versions of fairy tales. It was lots of fun.
Here are a few of our favorite stories:

Both Mañana Iguana and Tortuga in Trouble mix
in some Spanish words, so they are great tools
to teach students a few words in another language.

This book had the children laughing hysterically.