A Year of Reading

Ode to Bluegills Though you are small, you are mighty, fighting like a fish ten times your size. You make us cheer and call f...

Unsplash photo by Adrian Did you ever have one of those days? A night of your soul so dark that you couldn't see around the next cu...

If you read my tweets last Thursday, you know how magical it was to have Mr. Schu visit our school. We were so lucky to have him and w...

I love the Educator Collaborative and look forward to their Fall Gathering each year. This year I was thrilled to see that Debbie Reese w...

Bike Ride Blessing--A Counting Out Rhyme One for the moon in the morning sky, two deer watching as I ride by. Three steep ...

Thanks to friend and colleague Maria Caplin (@mariacaplin) for tagging me in a tweet with this video. She knows I am always looking for gre...

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

If you read this blog, you know I am a huge fan of picture book biographies. I am just going to leave these right here. They are two of my...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by stevep2008 ducks on the path feet slap, slap, slap I glide past ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017 ...

During the first week of the school year, I read the book Animal Soup asking my kids if they liked words. They seemed confused. "What ...