It’s back-to-school season and teachers everywhere are unpacking their classrooms, organizing their resources and libraries, meeting with colleagues old and new, and planning planning planning…

This year I updated some of the activities in my writing center and I am pretty excited about the changes! I have most of my writing centers in a pocket chart. These activities are not always assigned. Sometimes I have something completely different that I need them to work on in the writing center, sometimes these are used as early finished, and other times…

I got the job. After 11 years in the amazing district that I grew up in, I was making a move. I was going to be a kindergarten teacher at an early learning center that hosts a preschool and ELEVEN classes of kindergarten…

This year, I’ll be going back to teaching kindergarten. Even in kindergarten, I run a full-blown reading workshop. So, yes, my reading instruction happens in less than 15 minutes and then I send those lovely little 5 year olds off to…READ. No centers, no crafts, no stations (during reading workshop). They just read…

Never underestimate the importance of teaching routines. In every classroom and every grade level… but ESPECIALLY in Kindergarten. And in Kindergarten, we teach them, model them, practice them, talk about them for, oh… 180 days (give or take a few)…