Sometimes I get an idea as a teacher that both excites me and makes me a little nervous at the same time– the time I turned the whole school into a Gold Rush town, for example, or when I hauled a fleet of hand-built prairie schooner wagons with all the students dressed in bonnets and […]
Cool and gusty weather brought in the new week, with an extended power outage to boot. Cerrito students are working on finishing Chasing Secrets–many have read it, and the last few are trying to procure copies and read it quickly–so we can write the script for the play we’ll be putting on for you on […]
Welcome back to school, one and all. As teachers, we arrived this morning with the wind beneath our wings. We have all kinds of ambition for our remaining weeks of school. Check out all we plan to do: Create an eBook with partners on an iPad app called Book Creator as the culmination of our […]
Heads up that Gennifer Choldenko comes this Wednesday to talk to students about her writing. Students may choose to bring in books to get signed, and four of our fifth graders got their names chosen out of a hat to have a writer’s lunch with her. Coincidentally, we assigned incoming fifth graders her Newberry award-winning […]