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  • Learn Like a Pirate {Responsibility}

    Is your head spinning with ideas and changes for next year?  I am seriously crazy over the idea of a student-led classroom and this week’s chapter was even more convincing than prior weeks.  The topic of this week’s reading was responsibility.  Before I dive in to talking about the actual reading, I would like to […]

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  • Together We Are Better {Room Improvements}

    Is it seriously time for the JULY #2getherwearebetter linky?  Although I love writing these posts, they creep up on me too quickly!  This month is all about classroom improvements!  If I had the money, I think I could easily redo my classroom each and every year.  Buuuut, since I don’t have that kind of cash, […]

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  • July Currently!

    I am ashamed to say that I have blogged for two years and have NEVER participated in Farley’s Currently!  What have I been missing?!  Anywho, here is my July Currently! Listening to Bad Blood I’m not ashamed to admit that I am currently listening to “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift!  I go through spells as to […]

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  • Building Mathematical Comprehension {Chapter 3}

    What do you think of when you hear the term Making Connections?  For me, it always makes me think of reading and the process of making text connections to self, other texts, and the world.  After reading this chapter from Building Mathematical Comprehension, I am falling deeper in love with the concept of bringing reading […]

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  • Makeover Monday!

    Hey friends!  It’s Makeover Monday…..errr….Tuesday and I’m linking up with Primary Possibilities!  I have actually been working on this makeover since Saturday.  Here’s my chain of events in redesigning this product. Saturday:  Recreate the cover and posters.  It took forever because I couldn’t quite decide what I wanted to do.  Since the post wasn’t due […]

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  • Summer Stock Up!

    Please tell me I’m not alone in the fact that I have been planning, creating, and blog-stalking since school let out.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve relaxed a little too!  My husband and I have watched all three seasons on Netflix of American Horror Story and the new season of OITNB!  I also just finished […]

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