20 days… I still can’t believe it’s already September.  Highlights of this last week! 1. My students started a Silent Reading Book Club this...

For years I've had my students respond to prompts to learn more about them and to build our classroom community.  This year I bumpe...

Two Questions: 1) Do you teach about the Gold Rush? 2) Have you read this book?   It's a nonfiction book that is fu...

I picked up a very engaging pack the other day from my Blogging Bud Joanne Miller , (Head Over Heels for Teaching). She has put togeth...

We have been working on dialogue a lot lately.  The district writing sample is quickly approaching and I KNOW these kids are going to...

I'm just going back in time, catching up on what's been new this year.  This is the first year I am incorporating writing into n...

Oh Ivan... We finished the book the week before Thanksgiving, so for a culminating opinion writing activity my students created thei...

Remember that time I tore a book a part to use it in a lesson? Yeah, I did that last week.   We have started really working on na...

Don't you love it when it all comes together? We just finished our Native Californian study. We read Island of the Blue Dolphin...

This blog has been silent lately... just the beginning of the year with too much to do and not enough hours in the day.  I'm uploading ...