Halloween Bats and Frankenstein Monsters

I love Halloween and I love how these quick activities turned out. I like to try and squeeze in some fun single day lessons when a holiday falls...

Stick Person Portrait

Many years ago when I was preparing for my first day of teaching I wanted to plan all my lessons so that the kids got to learn something...

First Grade Superheroes

This lesson was an interesting experiment. Before showing or telling the students what we would be working on I went around the room and we talked about "things"...

Sub work!

As I said in the last post it has been a busy two weeks around here. After days off for Professional Development and MLK day I also had...

Complementary Cheetahs

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I sit down at lunch with our Librarian, Computer Lab/Discoveries teacher, and Spanish teacher. We usually talk about anything but school  but occasionally...