The Olympics are a great chance to talk to your students about different types of sports and the host countries. I love the Olympics fo...

As we worked on main idea and details I used short passages from different books. My fifth graders were given passages based on their l...

I just completed my 7th year as a classroom teacher and have loved every moment. My husband and I have been working for several years towar...

At the end of the school year we completed my favorite unit of the year, the Civil War. I wanted to post each activity we did but de...

This year my students read the book, Blown Away by Joan Hiatt Harlow . This is a wonderful book that tells the story of the 1935 hurri...