Day's Class Notes

Teachers report back tomorrow in my school district, so it will be a day full of meetings and preparing for the new school year.  Of cou...

For a creative lesson about being yourself and living your dreams, I love the book, The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater.  I...

Last week we began our Castle Project.  It is all part of our Middle Ages Unit.  Kids come into 4th grade asking when we will build castl...

Yesterday was a day of learning and inspiration.  I spent the day at the Jacobson Visiting Scholar Symposium at Grand View University.  ...

In an earlier post I talked about my Digital Story Telling class.  One of the tools we were using for that class was Bitstrips for Schools. ...

I have always hated Cootie Catchers, but my students love them.  A Cootie Catcher is a folded paper toy, which originally was intend...

I use a lot of technology with my students, but I believe in pencil and paper work as well.  In fact sometimes I am very old school.  ...