Make Your ELA Block Work: 2 Sisters Saved Mine
It’s been challenging to determine how someone else might navigate through my thoughts for teaching English Language Arts and find items that are useful to them. I’ve changed my mind more times than I can count on what information should be a page of stationary ideas or what information should be a category of updating posts.…
Setting Up Science and Social Studies in My Primary Classroom
Together? Separately? Integrated? How do you design your Science and Social Studies instruction? How does that design influence your set up? What are your Science and Social Studies areas in your classroom like? Yes, I know this is the age of integrating subject areas, excuse me, teaching “interdisciplinary concepts”. Yes, seeing the big picture is valid,…
What picture editing tools make you drool? Part 2
I wanted to give credit, where credit was due, to the original source of a Pinterest pic of an activity. In my search, I stumbled onto its file on another Free photo editing tool: Photobucket. To my surprise, I was able to resize, add a frame, and download. So, thanks Charity for your pic of…
My Top 5 Things for Classroom Set-Up
Walking back into your classroom in August can be a very exciting and depressing time. Over the years, I’ve entered thinking, “It’s time to revamp everything!” But then other years thinking, “I’m keeping what I had before.” For me, it depends on what the personality of the last class was like and if it brings…
What picture editing tool makes you drool?
I enjoy seeing eye-catching frames, captions, and fonts on pictures that entice you to follow the link to a post. So my goal is to determine a style for myself that others would find eye-catching and follow the link to my blog. In a previous post, I wrote about wanting to edit photos in a…
Who Knew? So many pictures!
I decided to start by looking through my pictures and using them as a launching pad to begin writing posts for the site. I was so surprised that I had 3000 pictures to sort through on my phone and laptop. Who knew? Trying to anticipate how I would think through the pictures proved to be…
Getting Started!
Why is getting started on a new adventure, project, or activity so difficult? You’re excited about the idea, but you second guess yourself about everything and then do nothing while pondering… Do I have the ability to see it to completion? How many mistakes will I make along the way? Will I recover from those…
