A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash Yesterday we did our regular weekly grocery shopping. At the big national chain store, there was ample evidence of...

We measure minds by their stature. It would be better to estimate them by their beauty.  ~Joseph Joubert   Cookies Remember t...

A Bus Called Heaven by Bob Graham Candlewick Press, 2011 review copy provided by the publisher A community comes together, makes so...

Last week, I had something to share, but no time to read through the roundup and be a part of the community. This week, I am longing for ...

LitWorld is counting down the weeks until World Read Aloud Day by highlighting a different strength of read aloud each week. This wee...

I'm writing a haiku-a-day again this December (inspired loosely by Bob Raczka's The Santa Clauses ). I wrote a haiku-a-day last Dece...

I started with the big idea: Learning is Social. With that in mind, I knew I would want my students to work in all different kinds of...

Indoor Recess Too cold again. Too snowy for outdoor recess. Too many days spent with the same twenty classmates. Too limited without ele...

A big theme in our Social Studies curriculum is Community.  I kicked off the study this week, I introduced the idea of community and the ...

(This post is cross-posted at T he Nerdy Book Club blog, one of my favorite blogs. This is a must-read daily blog!) It is O...