

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 5: 100 Days Smarter
This past Tuesday we celebrated the 100th day of school; and we sure did it in style! I walked into my classroom Tuesday morning and was...


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...


S16: Blog 3: Literacy Week
As you may or may not have heard, this week is Florida’s Celebrate Literacy Week. Because of this, I have gotten to share some fun...


S16: Blog 2: My New Small Group
This past week I have begun pulling a new small group during our literacy block. The students I am pulling are currently reading below...


S16: Blog 1: Back to Business and Back to Busy
In many ways I was excited for the new semester to begin. I was feeling ready to get back to work and to see my students again for the...


Blog #9: Responding to Students
This past week my teacher for my Emergent Literacy course came to observe me teach an hour-long reading lesson. We had met earlier in the...


Blog #8: 15 Minutes A Day
At my internship school, we are given just fifteen minutes a day for social studies time. If this seems like an incredibly short amount...


Blog #7: Classroom Community
A classroom seeming like a community, like a family, is one of the most important things that we can provide to our students. Near the...