The Teacher's Backpack

Wow! It's been awhile since I have blogged.  This year, I have been  stressed out. I needed to take a step back and do more for myself a...

This year I have a lot of students who are struggling with  their fine motor skills. I have  many who can't hold a pencil or scissors co...

Have you heard of Ziggedy ?  I hadn't until just recently.  It's a new  site to help teachers earn money for their classrooms.  How ...

At the end of each year,  my school gives a Kindergarten Readiness Test to our incoming students. After the test, I am often asked by the pa...

Hi,  everyone! You will all have to bare with me as I am writing this post while on vacation.  (I am currently in the mountains of Tennessee...

I can’t believe it is already March!  Man, February flew by! It's that time again for a new Currently. I love doing these and  getting ...

This week , we worked on two dimensional shapes. Each year , I usually do an activity with food and sorting the food by shapes. I would use...

So, yesterday was one of those days at school where you have to wrangle your little ones back in from a fun event.  We had our Annual Shark ...

Happy Almost New Year Everyone! I can't believe it will be 2015 in about 6 hours. I'm doing this a little early as I'm sure I ...

Wow! I haven't posted in awhile. School and life have finally slowed down. I don't know about all of you, but the first couple month...

So, I got my September Fix and was SUPER excited. Before I share my fix, let me take sometime to explain what Stitch Fix is. Stitch Fix is...