Since I teach at a year round school, I teach during the summer. (Don't feel too bad for me, I get the whole Spring off while m...

I am very lucky to have an awesome classroom aide/ science teacher. He comes in for an hour in the morning and teaches science for an hou...

After a lot of work on personal narrative and opinion writing, we started to work on non-fiction writing. I really love Hope King's st...

  My students spent a long time on narrative and fiction writing, ad it was time to move on to non-fiction.  While my st...

I've been very MIA for the last few weeks! Since I'm on a year round schedule, I've been preparing to go off track. Man, it i...

This past week we've started to dive into adverbs, a fairly tricky concept for my EL students. When I first introduced the concept in t...

With St. Patrick's Day coming up, I've been working hard to make some centers that were relevant to the skills we're working ...