As a 1st grade teacher, it’s your privilege—and unique challenge—to introduce kids to the art of creating and sharing their own stories. Teaching narrative writing to 1st grade students is a bit of a balancing act, as it’s up to you to explain something as potentially...
Once upon a time (according to Lewis Carroll), a Caterpillar asked a little girl named Alice a very important question: “Who are you?” Alice admitted that she had no idea—she’d changed so much in just one day, she wasn’t sure she was even herself anymore. Kids tend to...
We teachers know the power of words. They are, as Professor Dumbledore said in Harry Potter, “our most inexhaustible source of magic.” The more we learn, the more magical the world around us becomes. It’s not always easy, however, to convince our students of this....
May is a beautiful time of year, full of life and full of potential—just like your students. “The world’s favorite season is the spring,” Edwin Way Teale once wrote. “All things seem possible in May.” One wonderful way to celebrate the magic of May in your...
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