Valentine Day is coming and I want to be ready this year!  It is going to be a whirlwind of a day, and I want it to be filled with fun and love!  I have gathered a few really great things that I want to share with you, many that I plan to use in my own classroom!       One really fun way to incorporate art and reading into your Valentine's Day celebration is to have your students color these printable Valentine's Day Zentangle … [Read more...]

    Every year around Thanksgiving, I love to focus on Point of View during language arts.  There are so many good Thanksgiving-themed texts that students can use to put themselves in the "character's shoes."  At this point in the year, we have talked about "character" and "character traits" quite a bit, so students are able to dig a little deeper into what a character might be thinking or feeling.       One of my favorite text to read before Thanksgiving is "How … [Read more...]

   I am always on the look out for fun and meaningful multiplication fact practice.  Today we did a "Multiply and Draw" activity and it was amazing!  Don't you just love when you are working with a student, you look up, and the whole class is engaged with the activity at hand!?  It makes me wish that my principal was there doing my informal observation ;)  Today my students were so absorbed in their fact practice, they were almost late … [Read more...]