I've seen a lot of "five favorites" posts lately and I thought I'd join in on the fun!  Here are five of my current fa...

Continuing the new ideas , simplicity trend, here are three more ideas for next year.  I'm excited for small tweaks to make a huge, posi...

Small group reading is my favorite part of my day because I love watching my young scholars get so excited about their novels! I really li...

One of the things that drives me nuts as a teacher is hands raised to go to the bathroom.  Or when students just shout out an answer rather...

In a previous post about creating a display wall to showcase student work, I talked about a clothesline with painted, polka dot clothes pins...

So I'm all for centers that give a fun twist on authentic, meaningful work. My favorite new idea is taking an old "Guess Who?...

Perhaps I'm a little behind on the times, but this was the first year I heard of the "Elf on the Shelf" phenomena. ...

Craft stores have blank wood tissue box covers for around six bucks, so I picked one up for my classroom. Using 2 large pieces of patterne...

My school door stopper is awful.  Absolutely awful. I'm pretty sure it's as old as me and isn't very effective at doing the...

When I first entered my classroom five years ago, the place was a disorganized mess.  One of the few things I kept from the previous inhab...

Our classroom is a work in progress. Our word wall, for example, frequently gets new academic vocabulary words. The words are c...