I'm a part of one of the leadership teams at work, and one of my favorite things is to come up with fun treats for the staff.  I try ...

This was our third Veterans Day event at my school.  Each year has been a little different, and last year there was rain and it was 30 deg...

 OK, so this isn't exactly a lesson, but it is teacher related. The leadership team at my school rolls around a cart a few times a sem...

Here's a simple center for those left over eggs.  Make word families.  I just used permanent marker and added the family to one side (...

   I'm on a committee that works to try to come up with fun things to keep the moral high in the schools.  This is something I origin...

I am a part of a group that is in charge of student incentives and awards this year at work.  To keep a long story short, we had a small g...

 I made this a few years ago using free articles from readworks.  Step 1 is students sort definitions/examples etc of the different reason...

     Apparently, it's all about the 100th day right now.  In my defense, it's what I've been working on.  In my other life, I...

I started sharing about our 100th day last week, but this week, I'm adding another addition.  I'm going to set up a 'museum...

Things have been a little crazy at work, so in an effort not to let go of this little day of the week, I found an old lesson I did.  If y...

Here's a confession, that nobody that knows me will be surprised to hear.....I'm working on 100th Day activities for February.  Th...

 As a specialist, I do a lot of 'big theme days' for the whole school, but I have to be sensitive (or try) to the 'rest' o...

We are introducing our Thanksgiving unit with these little activities.  The picture above is NOT mine, I googled Mayflower Simulation.  I...

I made this game using a free article (3rd Grade Level) from readworks.com called I am Native American .  Once the students read it I mad...

 I recently made a Native American Unit I'm pretty pumped about.  I LOVE teaching through Social Studies.  Obsessively.  It's ov...

      Look at me following through two weeks in a row.  Truth, I really am pretty good about following through with things, but I just wa...