Searching for ALL IN ONE literacy and math thematic units for preschoolers?? Look no further! Ellie’s AMAZING preschool teacher, Miss Jeni Shelton, has opened her TpT store with a BANG, and Ellie has been so excited to go to school and share with me all her exciting activities.  Whether you’re looking for peeps, bugs and butterflies, or rain units, she’s… Read More

Hello teacher friends, and welcome to my beautiful brand NEW blog design! I hope you love it as much as I do!  Kassie Garlock from Designs by Kassie is nothing short of a digital design genious, and I feel like a teenager writing in a brand new shiny notebook on her first day of school! You’ll also notice matching colorful… Read More

So it recently hit me as I was walking the halls of my wonderful school, holding my daughter, Ellie’s, hand as she happily hopped on the colored tiles, that next fall, she will be in PRE K at my school! How is this possible already?! My tiny baby, who I can so vividly remember turning pages of books as soon… Read More

Each Monday, my third graders participate in a traditional Shared Reading.  I project our weekly vocabulary story on the InterWrite board (pulled from McMillan Mcgraw-Hill Treasures), and together, we read aloud in unison as we practice fluency and expression.  We pause at strategic points to discuss our weekly comprehension focus, vocabulary in context, genre, predictions, and connections, but our whole… Read More