I am linking up with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried it Tuesday!   Today I tried a writing technique a fellow teacher had shared wit...

Our district has common assessments that our students take approximately every 6 weeks.  Normally they take them during computers, but becau...

A few weeks ago we read the most adorable book, The Day The Crayons Quit! The students (and I) LOVED it! It is about a pack of crayons wh...

Today was my youngest son's 7th birthday! We were lucky enough to be able to celebrate together with his class and mine.  His class is...

Like many classes across the US we have been learning about Martin Luther King Jr. this week. Yesterday we read Martin's Big Words  ...

On Monday we started our weekly essay with this brainstorm idea I saw somewhere (I can't find the blog or the Pinterest link anywhere, s...

I don't know about you, but I am spending my "vacation" planning for the next few weeks. Ah,,, the glorious life of a teache...