Slice of Class Sprinkled with Crazy

Hidden carefully in desks, and worked on while the teacher's back was turned, the sixth grade class quietly put together a portal to sum...

Yesterday I lost my clicker, which is something I use every day. It's sleek and black and comes with a built in laser pointer. Basically...

I wrote a gratitude list for my students. It was on a day when I'd felt irritated at my students. A day when incessant talking lead to r...

 A few weeks ago, I gave my students an assignment. It was a difficult assignment (which they knew) and it was a timed assignment. I started...

We're choosing a book to read To read aloud in class. We're choosing a book to read A book that's bound to last. We're choos...

New Year. New Students. New Me. New Methods. Also I wrote this post on a Monday, so that's why it talks about the weekend just ending. B...

I have a book I've been trying to get my students to read all year. It's a series of books, really, but I figure as long as they rea...