Yes, I know it’s been a LONNNNNNNG time since you’ve seen me on here.A LOT has happened. I got married. Hubby got mobilized for active duty. I resigned from my teaching job. We moved from the big Dallas/Fort Worth area to a small town two hours away. This city girl life is not used to the country life, but I… Read More

That’s right! I’m getting married! I have waited a LONG LONG time to meet the man of my dreams. When I say a long time, I’m not exaggerating. But he was SO worth it! I feel so incredibly blessed. We got engaged about a month ago in San Francisco and am getting married a little less than a month away…. Read More

Some of my students struggle with reading. Looking around the room, looking at the back cover, looking at the front cover, looking around the room again, etc….sound familiar to any of your students?So we decided to create mini anchor charts on what reading looks like and what it doesn’t look like. They did great with it, and it was so… Read More

Three weeks have school have now gone by. And I FINALLY feel like I can breathe long enough to sit down and actually blog. WHOA.PLEASE tell me that I’m not the only one who feels like this! Here are some pics of my new classroom. I am teaching 5th grade self-contained this year, and I love my class. They are… Read More

Do you have books that look like this?   Books that are falling apart and need to go to the hospital? Then I have the answer for you! I am heading back into the classroom next year and am pretty much starting from scratch when it comes to my classroom library. I am scouring all the thrift stores looking for… Read More

We as teachers have a huge impact in our students’ lives. We teach them, we listen to them, we nurture them, and we inspire them. Our students often come to use unmotivated…unmotivated to do their homework, unmotivated to study for tests, unmotivated to do their best.So how do we inspire our students? Author and speaker Zig Ziglar says, “People often… Read More