In Kindergarten we have been exploring the water cycle as best as we are able at 5 and 6 years old.  We sing a song I never get tired of, ...

Scientist, poet...poet, scientist.  Opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum, you say?  Both poets and scientists begin their work ...

The leaves are falling in earnest now where we are.  I have used this poem with children as young as first grade, emphasizing the cycl...

In November at the NCTE Convention I'll be participating in a Children's Literature Assembly Master Class called "Poetry Acro...

  Today the Mighty Minnows went out for a very short walk, to notice some signs of fall--you know, the regular ordinary things that tell u...

To my 6th grader oh little boy chubby baby who woke me at 5 every day who taught me to rise before light to capture the hour of my best...

I saw that this week's host, Renee, featured Lee Bennett Hopkins on Lilian Moore a couple of weeks ago, so I went trawling to remind ...

http://blog.canadianmountainholidays.com When I was still quite a new teacher in East Harlem more than 20 years ago, I accepted the offe...

Happy New Year!  All the preparation done, the new recipes, the new table linens, a little extra spent on the better bubbly for the welcom...

A short while ago I was contacted by an old friend from my year in France--the multitalented Sandra Guy . When Bobbi Katz found out that we...

summer's last fling!  This weekend Duncan and I are making one last visit to the beach and to Funland (above) in Rehoboth.  On Mond...

Duncan drinking in Italy 2013 I needed a vacation this summer--I mean, seriously needed it.  Those inner teacher resources were painfull...