

S17: Blog 14: Review and New
This past week, my students took their last end of the unit test for math! It makes my head spin to think about the 11 chapters worth of...


S17: Blog 13: Black Bears, Alligators, and Observations- Oh My!
What a week! There have been some weeks this school year that have been as peaceful as you can get when you work at an elementary school...


S17: Blog 11: Full Speed Ahead!
This past week we certainly jumped right back in after Spring Break! With the countdown to testing on we are moving at full speed when it...


S16: Blog 12: In My Opinion...
The past month or so, we’ve been doing a lot of practice on opinion writing in preparation for this week. This past week we did an ELA...


S16: Blog 11: My Day in 5th Grade
On Tuesday, while my students were testing, I had the opportunity to go visit one of my classmate’s classrooms. She is in a 5th grade...


S16: Blog 10: The Biography Project Part 2
For a little over three weeks now I’ve been working on the biography project that I’ve designed for my small group of higher-level...


S16: Blog 7: The Biography Project Part 1
Recently I’ve begun a new project with one of the two small reading groups that I pull on the mornings I am in my internship classroom....


S16: Blog 6: Matters of Time and Money
Things are changing in my classroom. My CT and I have decided to try doing more parallel teaching. This means that while one of us is...


S16: Blog 4: A Little Mess, A Lot of Learning
Today I taught my first ever science lesson. My students are finishing up a unit on rocks and soil and today we did an inquiry having to...