Make Learning Contagious!

This month my second graders have begun to write weekly letters home to their families.  The letters make perfect writing samples and offer ...

Last week we were getting ready to do some color mixing and finish painting an art project.  As I stood in my classroom waiting for my seco...

Our Wax Museum was a HUGE success!  Everyone remembered their speeches and had so much fun!  My second graders LOVED this project and rocke...

Last week my second graders and I spent our math instructional time trying out a new system for working through math story problems with a p...

Scribble Press is a great iPad app that my students have been using recently to publish personal narratives.  Before we ever attempted to p...

I am getting ready to teach my second graders about input/output tables.  Yes, in second grade! This is a new standard for us.  A standard...

like returning to an iPad workshop after a long lunch with colleagues (who you rarely get to chat with) and finding mini chocolate bars sca...