What a fun week this has been!  Are you like me and you just feel a huge weight off your shoulders when state testing is over? We've...

It's Friday and time to reflect back on a week that included state testing....what is it about testing that feels more exhausting than t...

Just a quick post to say that I finally finished the last novel study packet that my one group of students are working with.  I think I ment...

     It's Saturday, but I'm okay with that.  It's been that kind of week.  Reading other blogs, it seems like a lot of teachers...

   The days have been flying by here and although I've hardly been on this blog, I have been reading lots of other teachers' blogs. ...

   I don't often burst out laughing when I'm reading student essays.  You know what I'm talking about, right.  I'm pretty go...

    It's Friday, and for some reason, this one feels well earned!  Even though we had Wednesday off as a snow day (for snow that never...

    Did you ever think you knew what your kids could do and they surprised you?  That happens to all of us at times, and like me, you're...

       This was a short week, and even shorter for me because I was out an additional day.  But what a full three days it was!  Lots going...

    Some time ago, I read about interactive journals that Jen uses in her classroom - see her most recent blog post about interactive math j...

    So....I took a break from watching football (and commercials) during the Super Bowl game last night, and got on my blog.  And proceeded ...

  Reading other people's blogs, you see all kinds of cute ideas.  And so I decided to play with my background.  Only I don't like it...

   Isn't it amazing how you get onto your blog, just to "check quickly" and suddenly you're sucked into that world of &quo...

   Khrys, from Keeping it Kool in Kinderland  is holding a Super Bowl Linky party for TpT and Teacher's Notebook sales.  I'm lin...

   So it's been a fairly wacky time these last couple of weeks, and here I've gotten this great award, and couldn't respond to i...

   I was grading a Social Studies test when I came across this sentence in response to a question about Ponce de Leon.  Among other things, ...

Darlene, at Meatballs in the Middle - what a great name for a blog - nominated me for a Liebster Blog Award. Which is super cool, not jus...