I feel like the blog is a little bit of a How To lately, but as we transition to MacBooks and questions come up, I want to be sure that we a...

Last year I tried many different ways of having my kiddos check-in for Daily 5. Although many of the ways worked, none of them helped with t...

 I am working to embed multiple technologies into our Daily 5 Word Work routine to give students a more hands-on, multiple intelligence ...

~* UPDATE *~ I'm even MORE excited than yesterday thanks to Sarah's comment below so I'm updating my original post to reflect th...

SMARTboard users that teach math will LOVE this site! For those of you who have SMARTboards, this is definitely a site that you will want t...

For those who follow this blog or check in regularly, my colleague Tracy and I presented a workshop during our district inservice titled,...

Ahhh.... the calm after the storm has arrived, albeit just for a few days. Between Groundhog Day, Packer Day on Friday, the Super Bowl win a...

Being back in 1st grade this year has been wonderful but at the same time challenging. It's seems harder and harder every year to find t...

Have you ever just needed a little bit of new scenery to make things interesting again? Well that's just how I've felt for the past ...

Remember those colorful fridge magnets that scratch up your fridge, fall off and get lost but are sooo much fun? Well now you can play with ...

Who would have thought that YouTube would be such a wonderful resource for your primary classroom. I've come across several videos purel...