Do you like your classroom to feel calm and relaxed?  I sure do!  One of my favorite ways to impact the mood of my classroom is through musi...

Whew...what a whirlwind of a year!  The 13-14 school year was my first whole year with the same group of kids and it was, overall, AMAZING. ...

We have recently started playing Boggle in our classroom.  This is one of the choices students can make when they are finished with their as...

     For the third nine weeks of the school year, we are working on writing about our opinions.  Last week we asked the question, "Is w...

If you teach young kids, you understand how much energy they have.  It makes me jealous...can I have just a bit of that energy to help me ge...

This teacher has been very absent from the blogging world.  Seems that everything gets CRAZY during May.  Lots of family stuff and school st...

Hi guys!  If you're reading this, then you probably survived one more Monday at school!  Only three more to go for me!  Today I did a f...