An Open Door

Woohoo!  I just scored a FREE unit!  Thanks to Laura at Kinder Kraziness I now have a lots of fun activities that my kiddos can do with the ...

Last night I spent time with my bestie Andrea.  She told me about a cool way to do student led conferences even in kindergarten.  I thought ...

In the spring my class was studying fish (as part of our WONDERFUL science program: FOSS - love, love, love it!).  So I had my kiddos help...

Many teachers are beginning to post about creating bulletin boards for the new school year.  (Sigh ... didn't summer just start?????)  S...

Here is one of my favorite activities for the first day of school.  (It even leads to a cute bulletin board!): First I read aloud The Kiss...

One of my teammates came up with this great idea for the first day that we now have been doing for years!  On each child's desk, we have...

First Grade Frame of Mind  is asking for help composing a welcome letter for first graders.  Well, here is the letter I sent last year.  Sho...