As educators, we remember and honor our fallen colleagues and their students from Sandy Hook School. We honor them each day in our classrooms in which we continue their dream of teaching our children. We honor their memory with our service. Join with teachers everywhere in committing random acts of
After receiving several questions lately on how I fit Interactive Notebooks into a classroom on a regular basis, I thought it would be good to repost this. I posted this back on June 15th, 2013 at All Things Upper Elementary. ************* Last month I brought up planning as what
This year I am TOTALLY into the Christmas spirit which for me (and my husband) has been a great thing. I have baked, I have wanted to decorate, we started buying some ornaments AND hubby found stockings he liked for us to actually start using yearly. Now, I know that
Every once in awhile things just need a FULL overhaul. Well, I have been slowly working on that in my store over the past few weeks to update my covers so they all flow well. Let me tell you that it is no easy task to get them done because
It’s the first Wednesday of December which means it’s time for our linky – Math IS Real Life. If you want to see how the linky works, or just want other real world math ideas, check out the link-ups from August , September , October and November OR check out out Pinterest Board of all the posts so
Where did November go? Heck, where did the year go? I can’t believe that we are already into the last month of 2013! With a new month comes a new Currently over on Farley’s blog so here we go! 🙂 As far as the Christmas Tradition goes, ever since Michael
For the last few years I have really felt strongly about shopping the small businesses on Shop Small Saturday, the Saturday after Black Friday each year. On that Saturday I always find small businesses to help support and purchase things that either I need or that I can find Christmas
This time of year we all start thinking of the many things that we are thankful for and how they have touched our lives. I, like many others, have been participating with the Facebook Frenzy of posting what we are Thankful for each day. This year, I have been truly
Here I am once again looking back at some older posts to link up with Second Grade Shenanigans and the Take Me Back Tuesday Linky Party. This time last year I had just had surgery to remove an 8mm kidney stone and was having a lot of problems because of
Think about this… If you had the choice, and the time, to read any book of your choosing would it be one you were truly interested in or one that you had no feeling for? most of us would choose the one we would appreciate and relate to from prior
Wow, where has this week gone? Seems like it was just Saturday BUT I will say, I have been super busy. Well, how can I say super busy when the girls have required me to take a nap twice this week. They seek my lap as soon as I put
Ready to add another new thing to your Teacher Toolbox? I know that as a teacher we are always have to “assess” our students. Now a lot of the time that we spend assessing our students we tend to think of the district required benchmarks, state testing, grade level equivalence