This summer has gone waaaaaay too quickly!  Not to mention that the weather was so mild, I wouldn't even  count it as "Summer...

LISTENING:  Though I am writing this from my classroom, the peace and quiet after the recent rain has just blossomed with the sound...

Whether we have our own, or our students give us a huge family, we are all mothers in our own right.  We love these babies as if they wer...

From a friendly comment, I learned that I was a "No Reply Blogger".  I wasn't even sure what that was until I Googled it.  T...

Listening:  We seemed to FLY through our math lesson today so I grabbed our money and dominoes to keep the kiddos engaged.  T...

Another Crafting, turned Reading, turned Writing opportunity happened in my classroom last week!        Mel from The Pond posted...

I am joining Andrea at Reaching Toward the Stars  to book talk about wordless books.   I just got this book in a Scholastic orde...