1. What are you thankful for in your classroom?  Moving up to fourth grade with the  BEST group of students who are LOVING reading t...

YEAH...we did it.  My class wrote their first five paragraph essay and there were no tears...including mine!  I am so proud of my fourth ...

I had a post all planned out to work on this weekend and I forgot my camera at school! Too many things to bring home over the long week-end!...

One of my goals in September was to get my students to master their multiplication facts (12's).  I taught third grade for 19 years an...

Pumpkins on 10/22 Pumpkins on 10/31  We got hit with a very early north-eastern snowstorm on Saturday night.  It left us with a...

The week started out with making an anchor chart about visualizing and why good readers use this strategy. I then read the classic poem ...