
Why Do We Have Leap Year? Earth’s Revolution, Rotation, and a Science Freebie
Leap Year only comes around once every four years, which makes February 29 the perfect opportunity to bring a little extra excitement into your classroom!

Leap Year only comes around once every four years, which makes February 29 the perfect opportunity to bring a little extra excitement into your classroom!

Years ago, when schools were closed for snow, flooding, or mass illnesses, the school year was extended to make sure students got in all of

Annotation in the lower grades will look a bit different than it does in the upper grades. It definitely won’t be quite as detailed, but

Honest talk here. Close reading turns those mini-lessons into MAXI-lessons if you try to fit in all that you want to do with a text

How many times as an adult have you been reading a book and realize at the end of the page, you didn’t really READ any

Nonfiction close reading can often be tricky for our elementary kiddos because many texts that we find are so long, it can be hard to