Fresh Sharpened Pencils

As with every job there are some things I don't like about teaching: Grading papers, Forms, forms forms, Meetings that have nothing t...

A display for those snowy months was my most recent success.  I'm really not a great bulletin board teacher, in all honesty.  Usually my...

You've probably seen this on pinterest.com .  This is how I used the idea in my classroom: Angry Verbs Lesson Plan Learning Obj...

A great idea from another teacher's blog : My kids love this!  I keep one "boggle board" up for two weeks maximum and give...

All teachers have their stories.  Here's a few great anecdotes from a co-worker of mine that I LOVE - the co-worker and the stories. ...

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 ...