Donate Now During our much-needed break in Colorado, I was fortunate enough to visit my friend Ms. Cantrell’s 1st grade classroom at a beautiful brand-new charter school in Reunion, CO. I spent the day wandering around, popping in classrooms and getting ideas. What I saw really struck me. They have larger class sizes than at…
read more »Donate Now The grand extent of “science” in my classroom for the past few weeks has been growing butterflies. They shipped a bunch of caterpillars in a cup to us, and since then we’ve been “observing” butterflies every few days. Mostly, this consists of cries of, “Look, Ms. Bennett! It’s EATING the FOOD!” Or, “Oh,…
read more »I figured that since I spend so much time with Jess, and we do all of our planning together, and we are pretty much the same corps member but with two classrooms, I should give her some space to post on my blog. A little background: her class is the worst class behavior-wise in second…
read more »On Monday at about 8:10 in the morning, I was in my classroom preparing for the day. All of a sudden, I heard lots of screaming coming from the playground. At first I figured that it was just some game that the kids were playing, but the racket grew. I opened my door and realized…
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