Good control of the hand/wrist muscles makes learning to write SO much easier.  Kids who struggle with fine motor strength and/or stami...

There's just something about fall... even here in Arizona where the leaves are NOT changing, it is NOT cooling off yet, but.... there...

Yesterday I got the sweetest note from a teacher named Ann in New York. She was telling me about how much her kids love my close reads! That...

Thanksgiving is a natural time to teach & learn about the meaning of thanksgiving, and what that means and can look like in ou...

N ovember is one of my favorite months of the year to teach! So many kid friendly, naturally engaging things to do! The cooler weather h...

I remember in my very first classroom one of the only things in my closet was a tub of pattern blocks, they became the manipulative that ...

We practice SO much on letters, sounds, phonemes everyday. Why is it that some of our kids still struggle after so many exposures? We kn...