This past week we worked on strategies for addition. One of the more fun ones is using the doubles. I teach doubles four a couple of weeks s...

We had a pumpkin week this week; it was all pumpkins, all the time :) We jumped off by reading some great non fiction pumpkin books to lea...

Have you seen these? If you haven't check them out now! I have such a split level class, that after our math lesson there are 15 kids...

Let me start by saying science has been seriously suffering this year :( With my crazy schedule, we literally have only 75 min a week to squ...

Do you have a classroom pet peeve? Mine is untied shoes. I can handle a lot from these firsties, but there is something about those stringy ...

Okay ... I did it. I bought the book. I read it cover to cover and I became inspired. Then I got hit by reality. My district has a BIG polic...

This week was all spiders... creepy, crawly, spiders :) Take a look at what we did, we had so much fun! We started out the week with our s...