Iiiiiiiitttttt's SATURDAY! We only have FOUR, count em 4! days of school left. We also have a THREE, count em 3! month summer this yea...

each year I hand this poem out a poem to my kids called A Murder in the Garden {freebie at the end}and they think I am all kinds of crazy! W...

Here’s an idea from a workshop I attended awhile back, but it’s worth sharing. We discussed teaching kiddos about how connections are made a...

I mentioned our poetry race last week and had a few requests to share more. Now that we are partially settled in our "tweener" hom...

This past year I began...keyword began ...keeping Poetry Notebooks . As a class we read aloud the weekly poem a few times, partner read, sha...