I am very proud to be a part of Reading With Mrs. D’s “Booking Across Canada” event! Bloggers from almost all provinces and territories have chosen a book that represents some aspect of where they live and have provided a freebie along with their blog post. Thanks so much to Mrs. D. for putting this [...]

I just have a quick post this evening. We got some VERY good news at my school this week. After MUCH work, and many hours we found out that we will be receiving an Indigo Love of Reading Grant for $84 000 over the next three years. Yahoo!!!!! That’s $84 000 for books and literacy initiatives. [...]

Have a few early finishers? Check out what’s new at KB…Konnected Kids!  #edtech #sschat #literacy #scichat #mathchat #games  Below are just a few of the sites that I have added to KB…Konnected Kids: Enrichment Sites for Students who Finish Early. Currently there are 300+ sites arranged by categories. Read Alongs KOL Stories Highlights Kids ...

See on Scoop.it - Education Matters - (tech and non-tech) 9 issues available to teachers, librarians and parents to print out and use with kids/classes.” KB…Konnected’s insight: Wow! Literacy Lava offers more than a boatload of ideas, strategies, resources from people passionate about children’s literacy and learning. Scroll down the page ...

See on Scoop.it - KB…Konnected’s Kaleidoscope of Wonderful Websites! Word Game Helper provides you tons of tools to help you find words for games like Scrabble, Words with Friends, Crossword, etc. KB…Konnected’s insight: Features great tools that will increase/develop your vocabulary and sharpen your mind. #literacy  #education ...

I’ve mentioned before that I’m lucky enough to be a contributing teacher-blogger to Global Teacher Connect - an awesome teacher-blog with contributors from all over the world! Head on over and check out my latest post on GTC about my plans for getting my students started with blogging this week. Give us a follow while [...]

Welcome to Kristy, from 2 Peas and a Dog, my guest blogger for today. Thanks again for such an awesome idea, Kristy. Enjoy folks! *** Need a strategy to improve student achievement? Have you tried Bump It Up Boards? They are a great visual way to help your students self monitor their achievement.     How [...]

I had an excellent Professional Development Day yesterday, on assessing writing. I’ve got so much work to do this weekend now! Don’t you just love it when that happens? You attend a PD session and by the time you get to the end, you have more questions than answers? Well, that’s the kind of afternoon that [...]

I posted yesterday about the issue that I’ve been having with my students just not having the types of discussions that I hoped that they would have (spontaneously, of course) in their book club groups. I told you that I was going to try a few things (I’m still open to more suggestions) and so I [...]

Continuing on with our book club in Language Arts today, we discussed what personality traits make someone admirable. Again, the theme of our book club is “This is who I am” and all of the novels have main characters who display “admirable traits” and strength of character in some way. I had students write what [...]