Remember when finding free teacher's ideas on  Pinterest used to be easy?   Now it's feels more like a window for shoppin...

Today was the first day of school. It was a great day and things went more smoothly than I expected with all of the construction going on a...

Last year our district came up with a whole new set of tests for our students (oh joy) called checkpoints (I guess the word "benchmarks...

I saw another idea on Pinterest and knew it was a great idea for my classroom. Today I made 10 whole-class writing journals. I plan to let...

I saw this idea on Pinterest (sorry--I don't know where the original post is but if it's yours please let me know). It was a pretty...

This is the second year I made the rock and mineral lapbooks with my kids. This is a fun project that I use to wrap up the science chapter....

All year we worked on Figurative Language to the point where our class could hardly read a paragraph in a book without one of the students s...