I'm off to Washington, DC to visit my college roommates, do some exploring, and see the Cherry Blossom Parade and Festival ( Saturday, A...

I just loved this book to kick off our Earth Day campaign here at school. Check out the read aloud here. Besides growing a cherry blossom t...

A few days ago we read The Bee Tree in preparation for our Patricia Polacco author visit. We created bees and a tree (out of reclaimed bro...

In the spirit of spring, we read Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco. Most of my students do not celebrate Easter, so we looked at it f...

This week's book, The Journey: Stories of Migration , compares migration of locusts and whales. While the excerpt in our book doesn...