A Year of Reading

**Mary Lee, Franki and Julie have been talking and thinking about choice during this time of Online/Pandemic Learning.  We decided to share...

photo via Unsplash Helping My Mom Cook I let my hands go on an adventure with cooking, chopping away the evil monsters. My cook...

My Teacher Mornings are rough sometimes. I fight with my mom, arrive at school in a shroud of scowl. Teacher expects me to write a...

I had the opportunity to hear David Wiesner speak at the Whole Language Umbrella conference this past summer, and when I saw that he has ...

I was so inspired by the 30 poems Amy wrote about Orion for her NPM18 project. I thought, " What a perfect way to end the year--with...

Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins. ~Sharon Creech ( Walk Two Moons ) Advice to Writers ...

You've heard about it, you've marked it "To Read" in GoodReads, maybe you've even ordered it and have it on your st...

The first few weeks of writing workshop has gone well. We are keeping writers' notebooks and beginning to learn from other writers....

Launching Writers' Workshop is one of my favorite things about the beginning of a new school year.  The possibilities are endless and g...

My fifth graders did lots and lots of work on their narratives of "imagined experiences or events" in their writer's notebo...

Gratitude List Praise be this morning for waking early, tree crickets buzzing, the humid air, the puffy clouds lined with pink firs...

One of my favorite parts of the new school year is launching writer's notebooks. Anything seems possible as we list our A-Z of Me, ske...

Near the end of the school year, I introduced my students to Bitstrips. "Introduced" means I showed them where to find all the too...

"Stack of Thinly Sliced Trees" by Tom Woodward , Flickr Creative Commons photo The reports my students finished before Chris...

Last week, in writing workshop, we started a short cycle on response groups in writing.  This is the beginning of our work with responding...

Last week, when we visited the Dublin Library, Miss Val shared a stack of new books.  One that caught my eye was Henry's Map by D...