This article describes how first-grade students create meaningful communication with families and help build the student-teacher-parent relationship through journaling. Journals are a useful tool to bridge school and home. A journal can communicate learning goals, develop scientific vocabulary, and create dialogue through oral and written…

This article is a report on the findings of a case study that focuses on a first grade teacher's noticing of children's understanding of linear measurement along a learning trajectory, extending Jacobs and her colleagues' framework (Jacobs, Lamb, & Philipp, 2010). It documents what the teacher noticed in terms of attending to and interpreting…