Our school recently purchased twenty-four new iPads.  Teachers, who are interested, now have three to keep in their classroom.  That means the original set of ten, are still in my room, and while they can be checked out by others, they will mostly be used by my kids.  More time for us!  That’s good!  As you [...]

There were a couple times today that I really wanted to cry from frustration.  I didn’t, of course, but I thought about it.  The iPads and Google Docs were at the heart of it.  My students are required to take a district writing assessment this week.  Since my students do so much writing using the [...]

Our class has been working on two writing projects since early December.  Students have been writing personal narratives and posting them to their Kidblogs.  This writing project was in connection with our new writing program, Being a Writer, which I wrote about in an earlier blog post.  We have spent our writer’s workshop time going [...]

Everyone is making New Year’s resolutions at this time of year, and I have a few in mind myself.  The new year also brings an opportunity to rethink things that are going on in my classroom.  There are several things I would like to try in the coming weeks and months.  Even though I didn’t [...]