Our school has a 6-day rotation for specials, Reading Street, and our Eagle Time ( our intervention/enrichment time). Out of necessity, my partner and I also created A and B days. We noticed that some of our kids have a more difficult time attending to tasks during the afternoons, so we flip flop our classes every other day. On A… View Post
Without going into details, I am just going to say that this year is probably my most challenging year yet… and I’ve had a few difficult years. Ay carumba! Luckily, I have made peace with Reading Street, and I am actually finding ways to enjoy it!!! 🙂 We are currently working with What About Me? in our series. The… View Post
Since we are federally required to teach a lesson about the Constitution on Constitution Day on September 17th, and since I will be required to submit documentation of the lesson to my principal afterward, I decided to re-vamp my resources. Right now, I am knee-deep in an economics unit, and truthfully I really don’t want to deviate too far away… View Post
Before I begin sharing my new documents, I want to acknowledge the significance of today. It’s hard to believe that it has been ten years since the attacks, and my heart certainly goes out to everyone impacted that day. I was a high school senior, and I was sitting in AP English when one of my track coaches opened the… View Post
It’s hard to believe that we just wrapped up our third week of school, but then again, maybe not. I definitely fell asleep by 8:30 a few nights ago while watching HGTV. That is about two hours before my bedtime… and I was O-U-T… out! 🙂 The hubster and I move in two weeks, so in between teaching & packing,… View Post