I love to do this activity when we have 5 minutes left before lunch. The kids get into pairs -one takes the pro side and one the con side an...

Just a few activities to spice up your Halloween theme with some challenges: 1) Ethics: are spiders/bats/monsters good or bad, why? 2) C...

Since the kids are allowed to wear their costumes to class for Halloween, we give it a little twist. I ask the students to choose literary ...

I love this story because we can talk about thinking bubbles and patterns in the rhyming. The pumpkin gets away and the family all try to st...

One of our icons of Depth and Complexity is "Big Idea". I think this book is a perfect example of looking for the big idea of thi...

Where the Wild Things Are is one of my top 10 favorite stories. I love the complexity of it and the way Sendak plays with imagination. Anyw...

I know it's a cliched saying but I speak to my kids often about thinking outside the box. I thought about that a lot this past week with...