Earlier this month I wrote about a gift that I had received that meant a lot to me as part of the fallblogchallenge2010 . However, this Chr...

When I think about gifts that I have received and even gifts that I have given that have meant a great deal to me, a ribbon of vignettes fl...

When I think of myself as a Scientist, there's not much there! I did LOVE Biology in high school, but it had nothing to do with the con...

Back in the day - children were not required to go to Kindergarten, but my mom worked so I was enrolled in a small private Kindergarten whe...

As I think about the things that I am thankful for, of course, my family comes to mind first. They are the foundation of my life and why I ...

I guess I've always been a writer, but as a young student I don't ever remember being taught to write or any teacher ever encoura...

As we wrap up the day. I sometimes play the "Skittles quiz" with the class. The quiz is simply me asking questions that review th...

My friends will NEVER let me live this down but somehow I missed this week's challenge in my list of fall blog challenge topics and wrot...

This blog challenge is on the book that made the greatest impact on my life. Wow - this was really a difficult post to write. There are so ...

We are deep in the midst of a Mem Fox Author Study. This is our third week and children are digging deeper as they are comparing and c...

My teaching partner, Tracy Ruark and I actually just did this lesson, "My Life as a Reader" for the children in our classroom las...

At the end of last year our Leadership Team noticed that many of our blogging teachers had really stopped posting altogether or had posted f...