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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 ...

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I have a classroom filled with kids just learning English for the first time alongside kids who are reading English books at an eighth grade...

Classroom management... the most important part of teaching in my opinion.  This is how I do it so I can actually teach something. The Qu...

School started with me feeling partially prepared, as usual.  But regardless of the lack of feeling prepared, I think the classroom looked m...

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...