Last week we compared fiction & non-fiction with snowmen. The first day we read Snowmen at Night & made an anchor chart about the ...

My kids were having a hard time grasping how to add detail.  {I'm learning that it's a common ESL mistake to invert the sentences an...

Every class is different.  I know this.  All kids learn differently.  I know and fully believe this as well.  But I can't help but feel ...

Another Halloween freebie.  Because it's just fun.  :)  {click on either picture for the free download} Whatever you call adjectives ...

Labeling is a fundamental building block for kids who are learning to write.  It is also one of those things that either you get right away,...

As cute as they are, we don't need amoeba people in kindergarten. You know the ones: circle faces with legs shooting out of the chin and...

Do you like my new blog header?! Now you can also like my new Facebook page !! I have 3 days until Open House.  In a brand new classroom...

Shiver me timbers it was pirate day!  We usually save pirates for one of our year end themes but this year me teammates were scurvy dogs and...

What kindergarten teacher doesn't love this book for teaching double e?? I'm using it tomorrow...thanks to some new ideas from Pi...

I loosely taught the ing ending at the beginning of the year because it's an easy one to remember.  See ing, say ing! like you're ...

You can't go the week before spring break without creating some sort of Easter egg can you?!  I certainly can't! We dyed eggs this...