Winter is almost here in the northern hemisphere and many children are learning about animals and animal adaptations such as migration and h...

Several days ago, I wrote a blog post about making Halloween pixel art in Minecraft. A few weeks before that, I described how to pra...

When I was a child, I loved listening to the original Over in the Meadow poem. My kindergarten teacher had a felt storyboard set for the po...

Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave an average of 450 speeches per year? When we ask our students about Martin Luther King, Jr. a...

Anybody who knows me will be able to tell you about my love for the game Minecraft. In a previous post, I wrote about how you can use Minecr...

Learning about letters and the sounds they make... phonics/ phonetics ... are important parts of learning how to read.  Engaging children in...

Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Have you ever wondered what to do with your old, well-loved books that are falling apart?  Instead of tossing them ...

Trick or treat!  Every year, children look forward to their Halloween parties at school.  Traditionally, children bring Halloween candy to s...

With Minecraft   being the rage among children... and adults... of all ages, teachers are wondering how they can tap into the excitement and...

When I first starting teaching many years ago, studying Japan was a major component of the second-grade social studies curriculum I needed t...