This afternoon the Mighty Minnows and I spent a lot of time considering our five senses, and there was a fantastic unexpected development ...

Huh.  There are not a lot of panda poems out there, I find.  I just felt like I wanted to continue on from Tuesday's post , so I went ...

As I marched the Minnows from the playground up the back steps to our room last Friday, we passed a rather large, not-too-shabby stuffed p...

It's Poetry Friday here in the Kidlitosphere, Poetry Friday in my classroom, and I dream of a day when it will be Poetry Friday in eve...

It's Day 2 of the new school year and Post 200 on this blog.  I realize that both these numbers are rather paltry relative to the over...

The Poetry Friday Anthology : Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Jan...

I'm posting from my classroom today, where my efforts to move into a new classroom before the teachers' preservice week starts hav...

I've been away on vacation WITHOUT my computer (gasp!) but have returned to continue my series featuring the poems--and songs--that be...

This past Sunday Daisy and her youth group held a Winter in July fundraiser for a Habitat for Humanity project in our community.  They mad...

I'm late to Poetry Friday this week, but I've been trawling and organizing my computer files and finding a few forgotten treasures...

This week I'm sharing a poem that the Might Minnows discovered, hiding in plain sight, in the Leo Lionni book Frederick . We read it ...

I love summer.  Is it because I'm a hot-weather person with a penchant for peaches, or is it because at this time of year I can luxuri...