Although I currently work with younger kids, I can't give up all of the fun, free incentives Reward Coupons for Big Kids offer. Wit...

Do you have a daily calendar review? Knowing how to read a calendar and how that information is applied to life is critical, even for the ...

Integrating elements of world cultures across the curriculum is fun, natural and fairly easy. Teaching an appreciation for different cultu...

Teaching elementary kids to write an opinion paragraph is sort of tricky and supporting an opinion takes time and practice. I started with...

Meet Sam. Sam was my Guest Reader last week. He read The Amazing Bone by William Steig to our class. He read it fluently, added in voice...

Throughout the year I've maintained a genre wall. We talk about genre all the time during the daily read aloud and mini lesson.  It f...

Just in time for Halloween, my students researched bats last week. This is our first research project of the year - there are more to co...