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Mentor Texts for the American Revolution and Letting Your Students Take...
I am a little late, but I thought I would link up Collaboration Cuties' Must Read Mentor Text linky for Social Studies. I am glad they and Jivey are recommending some books for the American...
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Fun Resources for Teaching a Biography Unit
This week and next we are finishing up our biography unit. All of my students finished reading their biographies by today. This week they are working on the performance tasks from their biography...
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Tried It Tuesday: Effort Rubric Posters (Freebie)
I am linking up with Holly for Tried It Tuesday.Lately, I have taken a much more hands-off approach to teaching. I am encouraging more student ownership through study guides, which require my students...
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Workshop Wednesday: Figurative Language
I am linking up for a quick post for Workshop Wednesday with Jivey. I found a bunch of Christmas related figurative language resources, and we covered some of them back in December. We are going to...
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Resources to Teach Nonfiction Text Structure and the Olympics
My plan today was to share some resources I found to teach the Olympics. I saw several people had some great posts about teaching nonfiction text structures, so I thought I would share on both.We have...
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Random Acts of Kindness Week Freebies
This is Random Acts of Kindness Week. Check out http://www.randomactsofkindness.org for ideas. I don't know about you, but it feels like my classroom needs more kindness. Sometimes kids are just not...
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How do interactive notebooks interact with technology and online learning?
I really don't enjoy going this long between blog posts. This figuring out a routine for working full time, working on my PhD, and finding time to workout and blog is not exactly ironed out yet.I am...
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Workshop Wednesday: Easy Resources for Teaching Students to Write Poetry
I am linking up with Jivey's Workshop Wednesday for Writing Poetry.One of my favorite resources for teaching writing poetry I bought several years ago. It is this Poetry Writing Handbook for Grades...
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Finally Trying Out Mentor Sentences
Over the past week we are back from Spring Break and starting quarter 3. The last couple weeks I have put a lot of time and effort into trying to really plan out the last 10 weeks of school. It...
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Must Read Monday: Mentor Text Picture Books and Teen Fiction
Despite my crazy schedule of being a full-time teacher and part-time doctoral student, I always find time for pleasure reading. I read all the time for graduate school, but that is mostly articles and...
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Literature Circles by Student Choice of Genre
We spent the last two week surveying the different fiction genres. The week before last they read three different stories from different genres. For each genre, they completed one of Jen Runde's Genre...
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Bibliotherapy: Using Literature to help Kids Deal with Social and Emotional...
Have you ever heard of bibliotherapy? Bibliotherapy is something I learned about since I started working on my PhD in Gifted Education. It is the use of literature to help kids deal with social and...
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Must Read Mentor Texts and #IMWAYR April 14th
Today we started a unit in Science on Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Method. Normally, you would do this at the beginning of the year, but it fit with what I wanted to cover right now. We are...
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Positive Thursday: Simple Pleasures
I am going to link up for Positive Thinking Thursday with Mrs. Laffin's Laughings.Lately, I just have been working every time I have a negative thought I try to think of a positive one. I have decided...
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#IMWAYR April 21, 2014
Time to update on what I have been reading. I hope you had a great Easter weekend! I certainly did. I did my first 5k type event, even though it was actually 4 miles. I participated in the First...
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Audiobooks on Youtube
Did you know you can find audio books on youtube? Now, I personally love reading audio books from the library. I check them out on CD and play them in the car. It is a great way to pass the time if...
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Summer Reading List Ideas for Kids (By Mensa for Kids)
I haven't blogged in like two weeks! Finals just took up all my time. I finished finals last week, and honestly my brain has been too tired to do much. I just finished my first year of working full...
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Getting Healthy for Summer #3weeksnocheats
As I am trying to finish up the school year and coming out of the grad school semester, I am trying to get back into a better workout routine. I consistently do yoga, but I want to get back to working...
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End of Year Gift Idea - Squeeze the Most out of Summer (Freebie)
As part of the #3weeksnocheats movement at For Blogness Sake, I have been trying to workout more and eat even healthier than usual. I have had fun trying new Pinterest recipes the last week or so. One...
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Working on It Wednesday: Buried in Books
There are lots of great summer linkies going on. I always enjoy all the blog reading in the summer. I am going to link up with Kinder Gals' Workin' On It Wednesday and Surfin' Through Second's...
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