Home Bike rides to the playground, tackle football in the field after school, catching frogs at the lake and night games when we were...

Choice- I thought I was giving students plenty of choice in their writing I was supplying a framework to operate within and they got to...

Technology use This week we had a great presentation on cellphone/screen time. It was directed at the students but the message was very...

Picture Book Month Well it is that time again. Picture Book month has arrived. Each day I plan to use a picture book to model lessons,...

I am Not a Number. A hauntingly sad, true account of a young girls experience in Residential Schools. Today was Orange Shirt Day here in...

Teaching is like everything else in the world, there are good days and bad days. If we focus on the not so great days we lose sight of...

Check student background before reading a poem about missing loved ones. The length of a response does not determine the impact. The...

The Plan Individualizing Instruction I have given a lot of thought to the idea of individual instruction. I have a smaller class than I...

Darkness Finds Darkness Throughout the story Finley finds herself with thoughts of self doubt, these compound and bring on more negative...