Learning and Teaching for Life

     This Friday was my favorite day of teaching thus far! We had a half day of school plus it was Snuggle Up and Read Day plus it was Valen...

     Today as I was grading, I found several papers that just made my heart melt. I thought I'd share them so that you can enjoy them an...

     I spent this afternoon consumed in the book, Because of Mr. Terupt, by Rob Buyea. I originally bought this book for my classroom, but...

      Starting in November, I realized that many students in my class were reading their required twenty minutes at home, but they weren'...

Hello to those of you visiting from Farley's Currently Linky Party ! I am a first year teacher with a fourth and fifth grade combined cl...

     Since I teach at a Christian school, I have the privilege of teaching Bible. We use the ACSI curriculum for Bible, which I quickly real...

      If you are visiting from Farley's Currently Linky Party , welcome! I teach a fourth and fifth grade combined class at an interna...

     Wow, did I really finish three weeks of school already? Time just seems to fly by! I can't believe we have been in school three wee...

     Before school started this year, I was trying to decide what to do for name tags on the students' desks. I don't like them bei...

     I survived my first week of teaching, and we didn't burn the school down yet. My class tried though. Yesterday, one student randoml...

     During the first few weeks of school this fall  August/September (I no longer live in a place with seasons; my students don't even ...

     Since it's the beginning of the school year and I finished student teaching last fall, I thought I would share some student teachin...

     A few weeks ago, I attended a two week pre-field orientation for my job teaching in Venezuela. There were teachers going all around t...

     I linked up with Oh' Boy 4th Grade's August Currently. If you are visiting my blog from there, welcome! I am a first year tea...

     If you've been following me for a while, you know that this year, my first year teaching, I will be teaching at an international sc...