Fresh Sharpened Pencils

Today I kept a kid in from recess to redraw his Halloween monster.  This Halloween activity involved creating a monster and writing a desc...

While cleaning up at the end of Writer's Workshop last week, one of my shy little girls, H, came to me and said, "Ms. P, I love ...

The first day comes.  They enter my room.  Some nervous.  Others dreading the start of school.  The little girls and one boy who enter enthu...