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August 9, 2011January 19, 2023

Welcome!

After many months of wondering if I should create a blog like many other teachers I decided that it was something I would like to try out. So here goes…….

It has been a learning experience creating this site and I think I am finally happy with how it looks. I am sure I will tweak it here and there as time goes by but I guess that is the fun of entering the blogging world.

Join me as I share strategies, lesson ideas, tales from the classroom, useful links, and many more things.

Cheers,

October Currently

I cannot believe it is October already but with that comes my FAVOURITE holiday….Halloween! I love everything about it 🙂 Well since it is the beginning of the month here is my Currently. Listening: It is after dinner and the dishes are being washed. I am so thankful we have a dishwasher because I am…

Whangdoodle….What’s a Whangdoodle?

I am going to be on holidays for 2 weeks.!!!!! Yay. It has been a long time. Before I leave I thought I would share with you all my students’ favourite read aloud book from this year. It is called The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews. Yup the same Julie Andrews…

Free School Year Calendar 2019-2020

How do I start getting ready for Back to School? The summer is the time that I start getting organized for the upcoming school year. The very first thing I do is print off a school year calendar and start planning when I will teach what, based on the school year events/holidays. There are definitely…

Art Makes Me Happy

I am home from work today with no voice. I guess I was talking too much during parent-teacher interviews last night. Well since I have been so busy lately and haven’t posted in a while, I thought this would be a great time to catch up. I love finding new art ideas online so I…

Halloween Cats

I think that Halloween is my favorite holiday to decorate my classroom for. This week we finished our Halloween cats and I put them on the bulletin board in the hallway. I may be bias but I think it turned out pretty good. Usually I have a flat tree but this year I wanted to…

Teaching Students to Connect to What They Read

To start Reading off this year we are focusing on learning the Reading Power strategies.If you haven’t heard about Reading Power by Adrienne Gear (Note: All book links are aff. links) it is a must for anyone teaching reading. We have started by learning about how to make connections to what is being read. The…