2nd Grade Lesson Plans are finally here!           I was looking back to my last blog post, and sadly realized it was way back in September!  🙁 This has been quite a BUSY, STRESSFUL, and CRAZY year, at school and at home!  I found out my principal accepted a new position in…

     Last Christmas, I blogged about putting together a collection of 36 Kindergarten lessons to use for those unexpected times when you are sick and don’t have the energy to type of lesson plans for a substitute.  (Read more about that here.) I am SO thankful for all the feedback, support, and interest that…

           Our district has spent a lot of training and inservice on different ways to assess student learning.  The areas that we focused on the most were Assessment FOR learning and Assessment OF Learning.  I felt comfortable doing this in the classroom, but it became challenging for me to find ways…

July is here, and stores are already pulling out all the stops for Back to School. So this is the perfect time to remind you how my binder organization system can help you have a more manageable time in the library! After working a few years in the library, I realized that there is SO…

Every December, we turn the library into a Winter Wonderland to coincide with our winter festival called “Cookies with Santa“.  We have carnival type games in the gym, food and sometimes silent auctions in the cafeteria, winter crafts in the art room, and then of course Santa Claus and cookies in the library.  It’s a lot…