My 18-month-old twins love to read! The other day, Clara pulled all the books off the shelf and surrounded herself with them as she read. It made me happy. I love to read, and love books! I am always on the lookout for a new book to read. I started thinking about my students and how to increase their enthusiasm for reading. Some...
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I have decided to spend some more time making clipart. I am still working on improving my work and trying to get better at Illustrator, but I have improved a LOT since I first started. Here's the first clipart I ever made in 2011: Wow. Embarrassing. At least I didn't try to sell it! That one little boy probably took me about 8 hours to make....
Haha! Ok, so if you have never seen Breaking Bad, it's about this high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has cancer. Things don't look great for him, and he doesn't want to leave his family with nothing, so he starts cooking meth in order to save enough money for them to live on when he is gone. It is a pretty disturbing...
The weather here has been ridiculously warm for this time of year, and I am loving it! The highs have been in the high 50's and low 60's, and we've been spending a lot of time outside. It has gotten me thinking about weather, and I decided to do a series of weather units. I just posted it on Teachers Pay Teachers, and...
Valentine's Day is such a fun holiday at school! The school mascot at my school was a raccoon, so every year we would make these cute raccoon heads made out of hearts. We hung them up in the hall and they always turned out so well. It was fun to see how the kids' raccoons always turned out different from each other, even...
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I finally finished my Continents and Oceans Geography Unit! I think geography is a fun subject to teach and the kids really enjoy it. I put a lot of work into this unit, and I think it has some fun activities:Color by numberContinents and time worksheetsWord searchesA booklet to learn about the different continentsA "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" geography gameA "BINGO"...
