"Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan has many different foods that most of my middle schoolers are not used to eating.  In the story, Amy is w...

I have always enjoyed this story, but this year I became passionate about it.  As I pondered what to do with this story beyond focusing on p...

I know that I left everyone hanging at the end of my last post wondering what "Curt's Crazy Cafe" was all about.  Some of my s...

Thanks to Todd Whitaker's ideas in his book 10 Minute In-service and to Dave Burgess for his presentation ideas and hooks, we were able...

With state testing taking up most of the students' days these past two weeks, I haven't been able to blog about our happenings sinc...

The M&M guys were a hit and they look grate.  Um, I mean great.  I have been having as much fun as the students with these homophone le...

My team and I hope the students are liking our hallway more since incorporating minions into our latest display case.  Since Despicable Me 2...