My, oh my! Life has been busy lately. Us Joneses have moved to a new house and traveled to Seattle the past few weeks! It has been crazy and fun and I have plenty more to share on that, but right now I wanted to share what’s been going on in my classroom! This week […]

Do your students just love Tacky, the Penguin?!  If I can find one reason to be bummed that I’m on maternity leave, it’s that I don’t get to teach TACKY! My students l-o-v-e reading about that silly Tacky and I love teaching all about him! Last year I created my Mo Willems author study and […]

Do your first graders love Mo Willems? Mine sure do and we have been learning alllllllll about Mo Willems this week! Pigeon, Elephant & Piggie, and Knuffle Bunny… my students are loving being immersed in all things Mo. We started the author study on Monday learning a little bit about Mo Willems and then throughout […]

Do you LOVE Pigeon?! Do your kids LOVE Pigeon?! I cannot get enough of that silly pigeon and my kids agree. He is a read-aloud favorite and my kids begggg for me to read a pigeon book at least once a day! I’m not a pigeon-only type of gal either. I think all three Knuffle […]

It is Nevada Reading Week and our days are JAM-packed with “mystery readers,” book reports, author studies, and lots and lots of reading! On Monday, we learned all about Ezra Jack Keats! We had read Snowy Day about 15 times this year, so my students loved to learn more about him and read more of […]