I was reading all these great posts on other First Grade blogs like theinspiredapple   titled: How You Know You Teach First Grade. So I tho...

I read this article and wholeheartedly agree with what they set out to prove and the psychologist in me is fascinated by how they did the re...

This is something we've been doing a lot of in class lately and I like it because I think it really makes the kiddos have to think twice...

Often before I introduce a concept and teach them the "real" reason for something, I ask the kiddos to write about a creative reas...

I teach my kiddos from day one to "Think Outside the Box". Every single one of my students can explain to you what that means. I e...

Even if it's sarcastically. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-28-2011/crisis-in-dairyland---message-for-teachers?xrs=shar...

I sat through 2 meetings this week, a total of about 3 hours for planning test prep activities for our standardized testing that starts in t...