This is the beginning of my 25th year in the classroom.  During that time I have been responsible for setting up a classroom for eight different groups of first graders, one group of second graders, a group of third graders, and now my fifteenth group of fourth graders.  In that time I have learned a [...]

One of my projects for this summer was to sort and reorganize my classroom library.  After 24 years, I have accumulated a lot of books, in fact there are almost too many choices.  For several years my books have been sorted according to genre.  They were displayed in baskets, and labeled with the genre.  We [...]

A friend of mine just got a position teaching fourth grade in another state.  This is a new grade for her, so I was trying to share some of the resources that may prove helpful.  For me that means Twitter and the chats that go along with it. *  Twitter has literally changed my life. [...]