This is always such a huge success in my room! This is a FREE activity you can find all over the Internet. Click here for the link to my favorite lab sheets! You need gummy worms, gummy life savers, plastic cups, and paper clips to do this lab! It is a great review of the scientific method! I hope you enjoy saving FRED!

Thanks so much to Mr. Hughes and his fabulous blog for hosting this wealth of freebies! Hop on over there and see which great freebies you can use in your classroom! My FREE Invention Trading Cards are listed! Enjoy your Sunday!t

LOVE this idea! I started making borders many years ago, especially when I could not find any cute borders to go with the content subjects we were working on. The kids each get one sentence strip, we use the back side of the strip. Then fold the sentence strip in half, in half again, and in half again (until there are 8 folded sections ...

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Oh my students never cease to amaze me.  Calvin did something today that has to rank as one of the sweetest gestures I’ve ever seen. Well today, Calvin hadn’t even walked into the classroom, and he handed me a book.  It was Whistle for Willie. Now we’ve read many Ezra Jack Keats books and I’ve [...]

I just saw this great idea for teaching sight words on Mrs. Miner's Monkey B [...]

President Obama gave the commencement address at Ohio State University this weekend. Here’s what he said about perseverance. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About learning The Importance Of Grit: Which brings me to the second thing I ask … Continue reading →

  Do you have a teacher who was so significant in your life that you still think of him/her to this day?  Cathy and I both have teachers who were important to us.  In my life I can think of several, including Mr. David Webster, Mrs. Nancy Bear and Mrs. Dianna Risk.  All of these educators played such an important role in my decision to go ...

Exploring our first and last names with a paper name puzzle in preschool!