This week, our featured story was “America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle”. It’s a biography about the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel AND who shattered the men’s record by two hours. {Girl power. Ha!} It’s a great little biography, and it opened up doors to wonderful conversations about cultural shifts regarding women over the past 100 years. Our… View Post
Whoa. {Cue the dramatic music.} It’s Sunday afternoon, and my head is still spinning from last week. I seriously did not stop to take a single picture. Not even once. I think I managed to eat lunch maybe once, and I managed to go to the bathroom maybe twice. All week. I wish I was exaggerating! Ha! It was,… View Post
A few years ago, I created a science unit for St. Patrick’s Day, and it was a HUGE hit with the kiddos! They especially enjoyed the spud races and leprechaun traps, and I won’t lie, I had a lot of fun with it too! 🙂 I decided to give this file a major makeover, and I am happy to share… View Post
I know I have professed my love of literacy several times now. You may or may not know that I also love history. I love it so much that it was my minor in college even though it really didn’t have any direct correlation to what I would be teaching in elementary school. 🙂 I’m not exactly teaching my kiddos… View Post
Oh my goodness! I wish you could have been in my classroom to see all of the Valentine’s Day boxes in person because they were just TOO CUTE! I have almost sixty students, and if I am being honest, I wanted to share ALL of them with you. Every single box. However, that would use up a TON… View Post