Go Noodle Directed Drawing

I’m happy to team up with Go Noodle to bring you a fun art project that your students will love! We are a complete Go Noodle classroom!  We use Go Noodle to transition from journal writing to phonics and our read aloud to math.  If I forget our brain break, they most definitely will remind […]

Math Was So Boring to Teach…But Not Anymore!

I’m a huge believer in making math fun.  Math is not my favorite subject because it never came easy to me.  As a teacher, it was the subject I dreaded teaching the most because it was so boring.  I’m not a worksheet kinda girl and needed to make math more fun!  Can you feel me, […]

Trade & Grade with Schroeder’s Shenanigans

I didn’t know how important it was to teach grammar until I taught second grade.  Or maybe it wasn’t a focus with my prior reading program, but grammar wasn’t a big thing in my former first grade class.  Once I began teaching second grade, I realized I really needed to get my act together because […]

Tech Talk: Can You Build Fluency and have FUN with iPads?

This is my first year using iPads in the classroom and I’m slowly playing around with different apps and testing them out with kiddos.  I want my students using apps that are meaningful and I want my kiddos creating, rather than just “playing.” The Reading Specialist in my is always looking for fun ways to […]

Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland in So Cal

 I’m so happy to be collaborating with such a talented group of teachers from sunny Southern California.  I love my little hometown in the winter time.  Tourist season is over so the beaches are empty and I can walk to the beach trail without battling strollers and overenthusiastic runners! I’ve reflected on the year I’ve […]

How do you level your classroom library?

Are you ready to level your classroom library? Over the years, I’ve organized my library by genres, then by Accelerated Reading (AR) level, then AR level within genres and then nothing at all!   I love an organized library because it made it easy for my students to find the books they wanted to read. […]

Not your Typical Thankful post…

I remember reading an article in our local newspaper back in college about Thanksgiving that I really connected to.  It wasn’t about listing all that you were thankful, it was turning things that aren’t always so great, and turning them into positives.  I did this last year so I’m going to keep this tradition going. […]

All I want for Black Friday…

I’m happy to team up with my friends at The Primary Pack to share with you some things I really want for Christmas and some things you may want to add to your wish list!   I have been hearing about how amazing Tieks are for teachers’ feet and gave in and got a pair over the […]