Holly Bloggy Christmas
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Holly Bloggy Christmas!

I joined up with the Teacher Blogger Exchange for a fun Holiday gift exchange!  The theme this year was "My Favorite Things"! For my partner, Jen from Jen's Kinder Kids, I sent her one of my ultimate favorite things - a Thirty-One bag!  In her email, she said she ...

Falling into First
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Best and Brightest!

I'm joining up with Christina from Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge for 2012's Blog Best and Brightest linky party! Most Popular Post My most popular post is the one I did about Integrated ELD last spring after visiting Myers Elementary in Salem, OR.  This ...

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Holidays Around the World!

Last week my colleagues and I did a round robin with Holidays Around the World!  Ms. B did Italy (she studied abroad there!), Mrs. S did Mexico, and I did The Philippines!  85% of our school's population comes from The Philippines, so I felt it was important to include ...

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A Day of Silence

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Gingerbread Hunt

First up, congrats to Stephanie from Falling Into First for winning The Together Teacher giveaway! a Rafflecopter giveaway To wrap up my gingerbread week, I made my kids a cute gingerbread hunt!  I started doing this when I taught kindergarten in Portland.  The kids ...

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Gingerbread Week!

My scholastic box came in!  Yay!  The box FILLED with tons of new gingerbread books!  You see, the gingerbread books I used to have in my classroom library belonged to my old school.  So when I moved, no gingerbreads came with me.  So sad.  They would ...

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The Together Teacher Giveaway! {giveaway closed}

This time every year I re-evaluate my systems.  Did I train my kids in Daily 5 well enough?  Do they all know the opening and closing day routines without reminders?  Did the changes I made to last year's schedule work well for me and the kids?  In December, ...