We have been reading The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and The Principal from the Black Lagoon. Two wonderfully funny books about how students sometimes hear how mean a teacher or principal can be and then their imagination runs wild on all the awful things the school staff does to students who get into trouble. There are several of these… View Post
Wild About Reading…this was our first theme this year for celebrating the love of reading. This is also our first year in a lot of years to go without Accelerated Reading (AR). I have posted previously on my feelings about AR if you want to read those posts to understand how we got to the place we are at now,… View Post
I just love the book Go Away Big Green Monster! Fun and colorful! I discovered a quick little YouTube video on this book. If you click on the book above it will take you there. Check it out! It is a great book to go teach colors with students. Kids love the cut outs on the pages too. Then… View Post
Our school has been blessed with having multiple copies of lots of different books. We house them all in our Literacy Library. Years ago, we made a decision to do away with reading workbooks and we were allowed to spend some of that money on ordering books. We bought matching bookshelves and lined the walls with them. Each set… View Post
Character Changes…Getting students to think more deeply about a text than just at the surface level. I don’t want my students to just learn about the beginning-middle-end of stories, although that is the first step. But I want them to think and connect with the characters within the text and how the characters change. Some characters are not the… View Post
A big hats off to Jessica Stanford for organizing our product swap once again so you can see what all those wonderful items would look like and how they would be used! If you click on the button above, it will take you to all the other blogs that are participating in the swap! My partner is Karla Banks from… View Post
Do you use theme word walls in your room? You know the ones…You write words that go with the theme or season that you are in. Some teachers write them on chart paper and switch them out as units or seasons change. Kids love theme words and will often use them in their writing through-out the day. And unlike… View Post
