Hi all!  I wanted to start a new series this week, which I will try to post every Thursday, called Blogging Tip Thursday.  While it is pretty obvious from the title, my intent is to create some fun

Super short post today!  EI has contacted me and has offered to give a $50 EI gift card away to one of my readers who also "likes" their Facebook Fan Page!  That's it!  So, head on over to their pag

Do you always get a few parents who ask you "What can we work on this summer"?  Well, today I was SUPER lucky to be contacted by ETA/Cuisenaire and have the opportunity to review their Home Team Adv

So, I have literally 15 things going on today and I am not sure I am doing any of them justice, but I just waned to stop by and mention three of them so you know what I have been up to.  :)   Firs

Hi all!  So, feeling a bit under the weather today, but I was still able to pull a little something together and I was please with how it turned out!  I created an owl-themed seating chart set for a

TIP # 1 Reading Matters! You have learned in past posts that reading is like riding a bike, the more you practice, the better you become. Well in order for us to make sure our kids are

I was so excited to be contacted and asked to review a couple of the newest titles form Bob books!  When I first started student teaching, I grabbed a bunch of the easy readers for my classroom libr

Hi everyone!  Hopefully your week is going well! So last night, I was having a chat with the members of my Teaching Blog Traffic School Membership Site, and one congratulates me, then another person

  Hi OC Blog friends! Back in November I posted here about using a garment rack for a chart stand. If you're struggling with your chart stand being too small for the actual pocket chart, be sure to

I know most teachers would say the answer to the title question is "usually not."  If you are normally a more reserved teacher, then yelling could certainly take them by surprise.  lol.  But, at lea

If you do, you are in luck!  I have just created the second item in my owl-theme planning pack:  a fun To-Do List - and it is free!  Copy, cut out, and use to jot a note down for some of things you

                I had the opportunity this month to review Sentence Buildings:  A parts of speech activity set form Learning Resources, and I was certainly not disappointed!  It is so much f

Howdy Everyone! March is National Craft Month so I thought I would share some of my favorites sites for kid's crafts. Incorporating crafts into lessons is a fun way to learn and many times can give

There are some things that I find tricky to teach... Contractions to me, are very tricky to teach. Just when you think you have done your job and the kiddos seem to have grasped contractions, you read

I have been working on some super cute classroom forms for everyone, all with a fun owl theme!  I know many of you have an owl theme from the conversations and polls we have had on the Facebook fan

Hello, everyone! Here in South Carolina it is really warming up, so before I take a ride with my husband to the beautiful town of Charleston, I wanted to make sure I left you with something fun and fr

Thanks so much to the fans at the Facebook Fan Page for all their help in creating the free eBook below!  I know problem solving in math (especially with the standardized testing season upon us) is

Hi everyone!  Seems like I haven't posted a video in FOREVER!  So, here is a super short and simple one - only 4 minutes long! I have to make sure I give props to the Tot Treasures blog as that is w

Today, we have a guest blog post from Stephanie at Teaching in Room 6 where she explains a handy little tool she uses for comprehension reading strategies and even provides a freebie for you as well

While normally my own products are not on sale, I wanted to share with you that ALL of the items at my Teachers pay Teachers Store will be an additional 10% all day tomorrow (Leap Day) if you use th

Make sure you tune in tonight, Sunday Feb 26th at 8 pm when I will be chatting with Adrianne from Kids Cog Works, where she will share why parents should attend PTO meetings, why the PTO may NOT b

Do you {HEART} Pinterest?  How about teaching blogs?  Maybe $200?   If so, you are going to be utterly smitten with a little collaboration I came up with that involves all three!  Announcing the "

  After six + years of teaching, substituting, over 200 credits of education towards a BS, and Masters degree, I have come across tons and tons of fantastic reading strategies, programs, games, cen

So - it sort of feels like the week of giveaways!  I normally do not like to throw too many contests into one week for you all as I like to usually spread them out, but I have had so many great item

I know so many of you out there are always looking for extra resources for science classes, so when Learning Resources contacted me to see if I was interested doing a review for Twist, I absolutely