Funky First Grade Fun

At the end of September, I posted a set of October Daily Messages for Kindergarten .  Would you believe that I'm just now gettin' ar...

Joining Deanna Jump this week for Book Talk Tuesday. The books I decided to include today are 3 of my absolute favorite mentor tex...

Zoohoo!  Doesn't that sound like a good name for an app or a game or a book?  It's really just a combination of "zoo" and ...

Two weeks ago, we started working on opinion writing in my first grade classroom. Last year, I did lots of rethinking about how I wanted to ...

We just finished school on June 7...but the summer is best time to shop for books from my classroom.  Or maybe it's just about having ti...

Thanks for stopping by for this weeks mentor text monday linky! I received lots of emails last week asking questions about mentor texts ...

 Thanks for stopping by for the first Mentor Text Monday!  The mentor texts that I'm asking everyone to share today (or whenever yo...

It's that time again! I'm linking up with Farley for the March Currently. Stop by to visit Farley, at Oh Boy 4th Grade , ...

During writer's workshop last week, I started to share small moment stories with my class. Writing small moment stories is one of my fa...