I hope you don’t mind, but I am going to share one of my projects that doesn’t relate to my teaching life, but rather to my mothering life.  Teachers are often parents too, and I want to share a project that I just finished that I am immensely proud of. Last year my beautiful daughter [...]

I am so excited and just have to share!  I went to Michaels tonight to pick up some Velcro, because it seems I NEVER have enough.  I go through Velcro in my room like you would not believe!  I always put Velcro, and especially Velcro dots, on my classroom wish lists.  The dots are awesome, [...]

Hey everybody!  I am a guest blogger today at Charity Preston’s blog – theorganizedclassroomblog.com!  I wrote a piece all about using technology to help organize take home books.  Please head over to her blog and check it out.  Hooray!  

If you are like me, you have at least a handful of students still struggling with fine motor skills.  There are so many muscles in the hands that contribute to pencil grip and handwriting!  This post is just a quick tip for one more way to build that hand strength to help young writers. Our [...]

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. I want to let you know about a huge sale starting tomorrow at Teachers Pay Teachers! It is a Cyber Monday, and Tuesday sale. All of my stuff will be 20% off, and if you use the promo code, you will get another 10 % [...]

I made our first table signs switch this week!  A few years back I was trying to come up with ways to give my kids that repetitive review they need with some things, without feeling like I was beating a dead horse.  I realized that table signs offer a great opportunity for this!  I call [...]

I have to say that working with checklists in student writing has been a game changer for me in kindergarten.  Once I began developing and using checklists with my students, writing workshop has not been the same since. Here is the premise:  Young children struggle to revise their work.  They write something, they love it, [...]