Wow!  A HUGE thank you goes to Library Safari for nominating my blog for The Liebster Award!  This is an award which is given to bloggers who have less than 200 followers but that “deserves to have many more.”  I appreciate the vote of confidence, and look forward to spreading the “Liebster” love! The rules for…

  Picture courtesy of The 3 Am Teacher                  Ahh…it’s the end of the year,         and the struggle to find lost books begins   (or continues if your school is anything like mine!)      I work at a Title 1, bilingual campus and the…

Well, our Spring Book Fair is underway, and things are pretty hectic.   I decided to not do the theme that Scholastic was promoting (Story Laboratory) and went instead with my end of the year “Summer Luau” theme.  I used to always decorate my classroom like this for the last 2 weeks of school, so…

      Folktales, Fables, Fairytales, and Tall Tales come up at some point throughout the year with all grade levels from Kinder to 5th grade.   Over the years, I’ve found some absolutely WONDERFUL anchor charts that helped me create a visual reminder for my students.   Here are some of my favorites!  These…

     Teaching poetry is part of the curriculum for all grade levels K-5 at our school.   Over the past three years, I’ve taught it in a very general manner, but this year I wanted to find a more meaningful to introduce key concepts and vocabulary terms to each grade level, while at the same time…