My fourth grade students' narratives, modeled after Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories , are finished! These kids really dazzled me w...

For the past few weeks, my students have been exploring Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Published in 1902, these stories tell how the ca...

I am pleased to be a guest blogger at Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergartners today, and my topic is kids and research writing. When ...

Estimation Station provides a fun, motivational way for students to practice and conceptualize measurement topics. Each day for th...

This week my class and I are gearing up for Round #2 of state testing. We held a class pow-wow and decided that we could use some practice o...

The first half of my fourth grade English book is packed with parts of speech. Chapter by chapter students learn about nouns, verbs, adjecti...

The classroom walls CAN talk. They can tell a visitor what's going on in that room. When a parent, administrator, or evaluator visits yo...