My 8th grade son is back from his DC trip! It was hard having my baby fly across the country and be away for 6 days. Luckily the government ...

This week we started studying nonfiction using my Bats Informative Reading and Writing packet. You can read all about the packet in more d...

It appears I can only manage posting once a week these days. I guess one long post is better than nothing! I taught my second graders how ...

This week we worked on Narrative Elements. I explained that a narrative was just a fancy word for story and then we went through each elemen...

Boy, I've forgotten how much work it is to start all over at a new school! Juggling the new curriculum, different expectations, commutin...