The sweetest End of Year gift you can have your students make! Looking for an easy and fun end of year activity to do with your kiddos this year? How about making a font from their own handwriting? It is easier than you think, and creates lasting memories of when
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How Do You Celebrate Birthdays at School?
I have been teaching long enough to remember the days when celebrating a child’s birthday at school involved gigantic cakes, party games, treat bags for students, and huge interruptions to the day. I also remember when it swung all the way to only being allowed to give a no homework
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Time to Start Thinking About Mother’s Day
Every year I plant something for Mothers on Mother’s Day, but I always forget to do it soon enough. So I usually end up sending home little shoots of something unrecognizable as a flower… or sometimes even worse, little buckets of dirt with a label promising that someday they might
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