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 [...]

One of the things that I am required to do at the beginning and end of each school year is to administer ARI testing to all my students.  If you are not famililar with ARIs, ARI stands for Analytical Reading Inventory and it is completed one on one.  The student reads the story out loud, [...]

School has only been in session two days, and we’ve done the usual start up activities; establishing routines, reviewing school rules, and getting to know each other.  Those two days have been very productive and we’re already up and running.  There are a few activities that I thought went particularly well. Our Social Contract At [...]