We are working on informative writing using text evidence. Reminder: I teach second grade. We read a story about penguins and were going to write what we learned about penguins. My class is known for copying text exactly from the text. Word for word. I told them about Plagiarism and that is was illegal. I told… Continue reading Life Lessons That Fail
Category: Classroom Stories
The Posters Continue
-sigh- If you haven't checked out this post, read it before reading this one. This post is a continuation of the previous post. Recap: Last year I had a child post another teachers class mission statement ALL over my classroom. Everywhere. I found multiple copies cleaning my room at the end of the year. A… Continue reading The Posters Continue
It’s Kind of a Funny Story…
This story takes the cake for the, now that I'm looking back on it, the funniest moment that happened this year. It definitely was NOT funny in the moment. One of my kiddos REALLY wanted to be in another teacher's class. She made sure to tell me this often. She wanted to be in his… Continue reading It’s Kind of a Funny Story…
April Fools
Today was our last day before April fools day. Have Have you seen that video going around of that fake spelling test? I gave it to my kiddos today. I told them they had to pass this test to go to third grade. They had three chances to pass and this was there first chance.… Continue reading April Fools
Confessions of a Real Teacher 