Honoring former and present military members has always been important, but since I started teaching on a military base three years ago, it’s taken on an additional meaning. Veterans are the parents, caregivers, and other family members of my students. They’re part of the community I interact with daily. This
Ask a roomful of teachers if they like teaching poetry and you won’t always see that many hands. Ask students if they like LEARNING about poetry and you’ll see even less hands. Poetry is one of those tricky types of reading and writing because it’s so different from prose. Lucky
Hopefully you caught my previous post about the fun tools I use for teaching about narrative structures in reading…now it’s time to turn my readers into writers! One thing you need to know about me…I’m not a Halloween person. Like at all. We could skip Halloween for all I care.
Ah, fall. Smell the fresh pumpkin spice lattes, break out the jeans, sweaters, scarves, and boots, and breathe in the cool air. While I’m a summer girl at heart, fall as a special place in my heart because I love being back to school and meeting my kiddos for the
Welcome to our Back to School blog hop & giveaway! Read this post and then see the bottom for the next post in the hop and the giveaway 🙂 I openly admit I am easily distracted. And a procrastinator. It’s taken me years to figure out how to manage myself,
Teachers spend an average of $500 on their classrooms every year. That’s crazy. And I’m totally one of those people who has done this, but I decided I really needed to cut back where possible so I could budget wisely. Where could I stop spending money? One place was rewards. My first year
When I’m having one of those days when I need one glass two glasses of wine after a ten hour (or more) day that’s involved a data meeting/poor assessments/lesson plan gone horribly wrong/someone else telling me how to my job, my husband always asks, “Why do you even teach if you
This week’s topic for the weekly summer link up with Monica at I Heart Grade 3 is all about talents…so I’m trying to figure out two of my talents. The first one is easy (and none of my friends will be surprised by this)- BAKING! I LOVE to bake. I like to cook
Remember that time you went to a required professional development and it was actually worthwhile and informative? Last September, this happened. Not only did I learn something worthwhile, but it has inspired me several times over to create new learning projects. This glorious idea was a concept called lapbooks. While
5 years ago…that seems like so far away right now! 5 years ago…was 2010. I was 23. It was the summer of my 5 year high school reunion. (This year will be our 10th!) Here’s a pic from 2010’s reunion (I’m bottom right-we were such babies!): I was in-between houses,
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