Bet you can find a few tricks for your new school year on my blog today. Hallway Hug  (Jodi Spakes) When children see friends in the hall te...

These ideas are almost like seeds that you can take and grow into your own activities.  Advisors and a WAITING Chair (Melanie Goodwin) Two ...

Where’s Bear? Write sight words on the sides of cups. Put a teddy bear counter under one of the cups. The children say a word and the teache...

Through the years when I did workshops I would invite teachers to write down their ideas so I could share them on my blog.  Take a look and ...

SONG CATCHER was a popular movie in 2000 about a musicologist who discovered a treasure of traditional English ballads that had been preserv...

I have so much fun going through ideas teachers have shared with me at my workshops. See if you can make a “fist list” of three new things y...

These ideas are from workshops I did in 2012. There are some "SEEDS" here that you can grow into other activities in your classro...