I love technology but sometimes it fails. Last summer I had a hard drive crash and lost a lot of teaching materials.  I tried every possible...

It was that time again.  The bulletin board change time. Normally, I don't mind.  However, bulletin board changes coincided with DR...

I'm pleased to announce my newest station is available on TpT!  In this "fun writes", I pose a series of task cards...

I read Hatchet for the first time around fifth grade.   I loved the book, so I was excited to read this timeless classic with my ...

As we're finishing up our novels, we're posting our character and setting charts on the wall:  I think I'm running out ...

Perhaps it's a point of pride, but everything I have on my TpT site was first and foremost made for my students and use in my classroom...

This week we reviewed theme in small groups.  I gave my students a paragraph stem (read previous post here ) and they independently wrote th...

Since my team (the Arizona Cardinals) is on a bye week, I had extra time to work on centers today.  I'm pleased to announce that #72, a ...

My goal for the end of next week is to have my teacher guide for Gary Paulson's Hatchet and coordinating chronological events center ava...

I love small group reading :) I feel like I'm a literacy specialist since so much of my day is spent with literacy: 9-9:40: phonics,...

New stations are posted on TpT! The first one is a survival sort.  I created this one to go along with multiple novels that have su...

My students are nearing the completion of their first novels in small groups and I love how much they're loving the books.   Between my...

This week in whole group reading, we were working on main idea, supporting details, alternative perspectives and inferencing. We used t...

It's Friday We will celebrate the little things in life. Here are our updated anchor charts for roots and affixes. Here i...