A Year of Reading

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

AJ recommends lots of books that we both know might wait years before I get a chance to read them. But when he slid this small trim siz...

Photo via Unsplash Scent of Spring His back went up stopping me in my tracks. I backed up hastily hands raised (as if that coul...

Today is #nf10for10 --a favorite day of the year. Thanks to Mandy, Cathy, and Julie for organizing! Head over to Enjoy and Embrace Learni...

Amazing Face by Rebecca Kai Dotlich Amazing, your face. Amazing. It shows there will be trails to follow, porches to wave from, ...

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...

Yesterday, I introduced my students to the new-to-me strategy of multiplying using a ratio table. We did a few whole number examples toget...

photo via Unsplash Vertical by Linda Pastan Perhaps the purpose  of leaves is to con...

In the middle of the week, we break from our regular word study routines for Word Game Wednesday. Over the course of many years, I have c...

My German "mom" sent me these six postcards along with her annual Christmas letter.  Last Sunday, on the brink of the...