A Year of Reading

Visit the It's Monday! What Are You Reading link up at Teach Mentor Texts! We kicked off Mother Reader's 48 Hour Read wit...

Thank you, Mandy, for the picture! Yesterday started with a blogger breakfast/bookstore fest and ended on the couch, burning through the...

Sonnet I by Phillip Britts How often do we miss the fainter note Or fail to see the more exquisite hue, Blind to the tiny streamlet a...

Third graders love to laugh. I have learned that over and over again in the classroom.  One of my favorite times to hear laughter is duri...

May was a beautiful month, don't you agree?!? (And a pretty yummy one, too!) You can see the pictures on Flickr here .

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Will Clayton Even though our blog birthday was on January 1, we are celebrating it all year! On our ...

SUMER IS ICUMEN IN Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing, cuccu; Groweth sed and bloweth med, And springth the wode nu; Sing, cuc...

Last week, we had the opportunity to Skype with author Erin Soderberg. Erin is the author of The Quirks: Welcome to Normal  and  The Qui...

Jen at Teach Mentor Texts has the link-up. Go check out what everybody's reading! I'm getting ready for the summer editio...