As the school year is off to a good start, I like to reflect upon and think about the ways that I use certain activities, or types of activities in my classroom. One of my favorite category of resources to create and use (and one that has always been a student favorite) is the color [...]

Teaching reading is one of my greatest passions, as you probably already know if you've been reading along. But as much as I love reading with and to my students... as much as I loved listening to discussions... I wasn't really sure how to balance writing good chapter questions. In the beginning I struggled with [...]

Recently I received an e-mail with an opportunity to work with a company called Innovation Press.  They send me a few books to create some resources for and each time, I have been absolutely in love with the teaching opportunities that these books open up! Note:This post contains affiliate links. As a part of the [...]

We've chatted before about the three step approach to implementing an individual behavior plan.  One of the things I had the hardest time wrapping my mind around was the concept of choosing a small goal, a really tiny measurable goal, when a child in my class may be totally out of control.  Let's call this [...]

It's that spooky time of year again! It's definitely the time of year I begin to pull out some of my favorite read aloud stories! Some of them have to do with Halloween specifically and others just really work well this time of year because they have a fall or spooky theme. So many of [...]

It's that time of year... the time when behavior management issues start to pop up! Maybe it's because of the wonky school schedules, the wearing off of the beginning of the year "honeymoon" period, or the sniffles and sicknesses setting in... but this time of year I always had those kiddos who need a little [...]

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In September here in Connecticut, everything is APPLES APPLES APPLES! I try to use this beginning of the year opportunity to engage my students in all sort of curricular activities related to themes they know a lot about already.  One of the things that I've really focused on in the past is having access to [...]

Teaching math was something I never dreamed I would find fun. In fact, it was the one subject I felt worried about teaching my first year, and quickly became a personal professional goal of mine. As I became aware of more and more math manipulatives, and saw how they empowered my students and unlocked those [...]

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