Last fall I taught my annual Animoto lesson where my students create Animoto videos advertising their choice for the Caldecott Award. I pull books from my collection as well as books from the public library that meet the criteria. *This post contains Amazon affilate links. This year the students chose the following books for their… More Our winner is….
My regular schedule was disrupted this week for an annual Christmas luncheon our school hosts each December for the clergy of the community. So classes had to be moved around a bit and a couple of them even had to be shortened. Fortunately, the teachers were understanding and willing to cooperate as this is an… More Week by Week Series – Week 15
It was a bit of a crazy mixed up week at my school last week. Each year our school has a day of service, our Serve-a-thon. All of our students (K-12) participate in some form of community service. Our kinder classes along with the fifth graders filled shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. I worked… More Week by Week Series – Week 13
How was your week? What fun activities did you do with your students? At MVCS I continued working with my two kinder classes on ABC order. The very littles (first year of two year kinder program) put cards in Alphabetical order which they have done before as a group. This time they completed them by… More Week by Week Series – Week 12
Last week was a short week for us – classes dismissed early on Wednesday so that the teachers could travel to Phoenix for the annual ACSI Professional Development. I still got in most of my elementary classes and a couple of extra classes besides. **This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if… More Week by Week Series – Week 11
**This post contain an Animoto affiliate link and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links. Each fall I scan lists on the internet for potential Caldecott books for the following January. I check out as many of those as possible from our local public library and choose 10-15… More Mock Caldecott