My First Soda Bread

Year One Day Sixteen: Next step, ART! So most of the...

Oct 2nd

Look up on the table, look down on the...

I just discovered a cd of songs about art by Greg Percy!  I am going to use them with PreK and K,...

Oct 1st

Mail Key!

Kenny has it!

Oct 1st

Year One Day Fifteen: I want to beat you up. I can’t...

Oct 1st

Year One Day Fourteen: Show me your ears! So I have been...

Sep 29th

Year One Day Thirteen: 3 Ticket Minimum So part of our...

Sep 29th

Year One Day Twelve: The lines for the clouds….I like...

Sep 29th

Year One Day Eleven: Drill Sargent Miss Allison K03 met the...

Sep 29th

Year One Day Ten: Fast Lines, Zig Zag Kids Ugh.

Sep 29th

Year One Day Nine: Need More Songs! More songs and games...

Sep 29th

What is left of the jade plant.

Sep 29th

I just had a lovely conversation with the cashier at the wine shop, and I walked away smiling.  I...

Sep 29th

Year One Day Eight: Carts On Loan I’m a little more...

Sep 21st

Year One Day Seven: Miss Allison As Bat Girl There is a 2nd...

Sep 21st

2 to 1

The schedule at my school was rearranged, again, and I just saw that I no longer have the 3rd grade...

Sep 18th

Year One Day Six: Kids Are So Easy to Bribe

Sep 17th

Year One Day Five: Seven Phone Calls Home

Sep 17th

Year One Day Four: The materials should go to the room with...

Sep 17th

"She has red everything!"

One of my first grade students as I was passing in the hall.  Today I am wearing a red shirt, and I...

Sep 16th

“Wow! You’re a real artist!”
— At least one kid per class. ...

Sep 16th

I want to be a Theremin Virtuoso.

Sep 16th

My new room. It actually looked a lot less worse this...

Sep 14th

What would you put in your sketchbook?

“Crushes?” - 3rd grade boy “Crushes?” - Me “Yeah, people you...

Sep 13th

jkitz: via reubenmiller.typepad.com I would like to have...

Sep 13th

Year One Day Three: Moving Day The sky was an amazing color...

Sep 12th

And the verdict is...

The DOE gave my principal money to open up another 1st grade class.  That means no more art room.  I...

Sep 11th

I gave my first star to a class today!

Sep 11th

The school is like a roller coaster of...

Many things happened today, the second day of school.  I was very nervous about my first class of...

Sep 10th

Year 1: Day 2 Amoeba Line

Sep 10th

Project Year 1: Day 1 Keys To Room 211

Sep 9th

This is it!

Day 1 for teachers.  Students start tomorrow!

Sep 8th

The back end of the reason Kenny hates everyone.

Sep 6th

Kenny by candelight.

Sep 6th

So on the 1st day of class Im going to ask my students...

Sep 4th

Brainstorming what to dress up as for...

benjaminstein: …when I realized that I just used three prepositions in a row! Kenny and I are going...

Sep 3rd