Balancing Your Nonfiction Collection Using the 5 Kinds of Nonfiction
What percentage of your classroom library collection is nonfiction? When I proposed this question to myself , I realized that my classroom library collection had roughly less than 20% nonfiction [...]
Books Supporting Social Media Instruction
As a child of the ‘90s, I grew up in the wild Wild West of the internet. It was not until I was in middle school when the internet became available to me to use at my “leisure” (on a hard-wired [...]
Book Review: Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
If you were to ask me in seventh grade if history was my favorite subject, the answer would have been a resounding no. The same goes for the characters Sam and TJ in Alex Gino’s newest novel, [...]
Fall Equinox – Learning about Fall in the Elementary Classroom
When the pumpkin spice latte makes its appearance at your favorite coffee shop, it can only mean one thing: fall is upon us. Although this year the release of the favorite fall coffee flavors was [...]
Read Alouds for the First Weeks of School
While walking through my local Target recently, I started to see the back-to-school end caps and signs. Although I am not in the classroom anymore, it always brings back feelings of preparing for [...]
“How-To” Writing: An Important Life Skill
When I taught first grade, one of my favorite writing units was the “How-to” unit. This unit was always engaging and excited every student. I realized students loved this unit so much because [...]
The Office: A Day at Dunder Mifflin Elementary by Robb Pearlman
For those of you who do not already know, The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom, adapted from the original BBC version, that lets the viewer follow employees’ daily lives at work at [...]
