The Sweet Life

      As we approach the midpoint in the school year, I want to encourage parents to continue to read with their child each night at home fo...

Well, I received my class list for the school year and I am pretty excited to get back in my classroom. I have lots to do to get ready and l...

I came up with an idea to help my students develop a story. They had a hard time coming up with ideas so I set up three buckets to help. Eac...

For our Mother's Day gifts, my students made flowers out of recycled cardboard egg cartons. Here are the results...

To wrap up our weather unit, we did a Reader's Theater called "The Story of a Water Cycle". It enabled my students to work on ...

We read an interesting informational text about bees. We learned to look at the text for clues. We learned that an important clue might b...

This week we learned about the "magic e" and how it can "magically" change a word into a new word. We learned that the ...