Back to School Season is here! Click to see my favorite first week of school activity.
I have always been a little bit of a nerd. One example of that is I LOVE reading professional books in the summer time. The time off gives me time to un-wind and then begin thinking about the changes I want to make as an educator. The book I am currently reading is called Disrupting…
I am fortunate to work in a district with a 1:1 technology program. Each student in our district has a Chromebook to utilize for instructional purposes. There are a million things students can do on their Chromebooks. iReady, mClass, xtramath, Google Docs, prodigy, SumDog. Need I continue?! But, there’s just one problem. My students are…
I spend the last few (15-20) minutes of my day reading to my students every school day. You can see my previous post here about the reasons why upper elementary students NEED a daily read aloud time. I am very choosy about the books I read with my students. I love a classic like Charlotte’s…
Read aloud isn’t just for lower elementary! Big kids need daily read aloud too!
Here is my two cents on the NB process & my advice for anyone who is thinking of signing up.