I started this blog in May of 2011 as a way to connect with other teachers and share my teaching ideas. Creating lessons, activities, and decorations for my own classroom brought me so much joy, so being able to share those ideas with other teachers was an absolute dream!  Now I’ve been on this little space of the internet for over a decade, and it is truly one of my favorite places to be.

 

One of my favorite things about being a classroom teacher is the art of developing a lesson plan.  I learned early on that giving my students worksheet after worksheet was just not going to work for us.  I believe that students are most engaged in the classroom when the activities are hands-on, the books are meaningful, and the environment is structured but fun.  The best activities are those when the students don’t even realize they are working/learning because they are just having too much fun while doing so!  I’m always looking for ways I can spice up the typical activity just by adding in simple materials such as dice, spinners, poms, pipe cleaners, etc.  Sometimes you just need that ONE little thing to take your lesson from mundane to magical.