Teaching from Pinterest

Maybe this should have been my first post. Oh, Well!! Here I am an adult in her mid 30's who has maybe figured out what she likes to do ...

Summer is a time for projects to get done. In addition to getting my kids to sleep I have been decorating my home. This week I made an accen...

I often think that the cute ideas I get from Pinterest are more fun for me than for the students. I tend to get way more excited about ...

My reading class struggles with tracking where we are on the page. A class does not go by without a certain student blurting out "...

At my school transitions happen at least once an hour. This can  make teaching a bit tough. We try to come up with ideas to keep the ch...

This was a fun way for my fifth-graders to learn about onomatopoeias. Coming into the lesson most of them had no idea what an onomatopoei...

When teaching my students about similes and metaphors I wanted to find a way to bring it into their lives. I found this great YouTube...