Teaching Heart to Heart

My favorite holiday is quickly approaching.  I love Fall and all that comes with the season. (Okay, maybe not the snow...) There are so man...

I have to say that I love teaching compound words.  I think they are fun for 1st graders-5th graders. (Even I really enjoy doing this activi...

My school divides up the jobs for each grade level instead of having one person in charge.  Each person is responsible for either ordering s...

I feel like I finally have my feet under me now that I've actually been teaching the same grade for a few years. Now I try to set a new ...

My school started using the Reading Street program (Common Core Edition 2011) last year.  Needless to say, it was a little overwhelming at f...

I saw this cute idea for a Back to School treat on Facebook.  I just wanted to share this really cute and simple idea. Here are the sup...

I am always amazed at how fast the break seems to be.  Maybe we just plan so many things that we don't have a lot of free time.  I feel ...