Five Fun Facts!

Who's up for a few fun facts about yours truly?! I just had a baby!  Is this old news yet? Because she's a pretty big deal. Charlie Grace was born a week ago today at 8 pounds, 12.5 ounces. She brings this crew to a party of four! I'm an ELL teacher, turned stay at home mom.  I don't enjoy most homemaker responsiblities. I can meal plan like woah, but cooking sucks. I hate...

Using Post Its to guide the Peer Revision Process

Welcome to our final week of our Building Back to School Linky! Today, we're rounding off our Tools with some Tools, Tips, & Resources for Writing! :) I'm keeping it simple today with a super quick and easy tip that I really loved implementing in the classroom! My last year teaching ELL, we implemented writer's workshop. I loved it SO MUCH. At the end of each workshop, we had a fabulous...

Wordless Wednesday: Losing Sleep

Spent naptime today taking sweet photos of 4 day old Charlie Grace instead of catching up on much needed sleep. What's on your list of items that you gladly lose sleep over? ...

Tot School Tuesday: THINGS THAT GO

Alrighty mommy friends!!! Last week I made the decision to finally dive into some sort of Tot School Structure for Beckett. Today, I've got September's plan built and ready for take off! First, however, let me clarify that this is just as much a trial and error thing for me as it will be for any other mommy reading this. Of course, my background is in education so I have a pretty good concept...

Building Reading: Making the Most of Your Non-Fiction Passages

Welcome back to our Building Back to School Linky Series! If you’ve missed any of the previous weeks, you can catch up with them here: Tools for Teachers Tools for Classrooms Tools for Language This week, I’m linking up with some fabulous bloggers to bring you some Tools for READING! This year, in response to the still new Common Core Initiative & in an effort to meet teacher...

Spotlight Saturday: Labor Day Writing Center!

It's Saturday! That means hopefully most of you teacher friends are enjoying some much needed downtime. Like yesterday's post, I'm writing this early, hoping that I'll spend Saturday snuggling a new baby. We'll see. [Update: As of Friday night at midnight, still no baby.] Anyway, I've been hard at work preparing all of my favorite materials for this school year. One of my many goals is to update...

Five for Friday: August 21

Yay! It's Friday!! Actually, it's Wednesday. I'm writing this a couple days early because HOPEFULLY I'm holding a fresh new baby. We'll see. Doc says she's happy in there. Darn my awesome uterus. ;) Regardless, I didn't want to miss out on the fun! Thanks DoodleBugs for Hosting! Well, I tend to spontaneously jump into things. Randomly, I have an idea and next thing you know I'm spending my...