What’s a decibella? Actually it’s a who and there’s a fifty-fifty chance you have a real one in your classroom. Decibella is a spunky, spirited book character who loves using her loud voice at all times. Her real name is Isabella, but everyone calls her Decibella because she is just soooooo LOUD. She simply doesn’t…
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Classroom Cleanup—Pack or Purge?
The definition of a packrat is someone who saves (or hoards!) unnecessary things. So what exactly is unnecessary? Is something unnecessary if you haven’t used it in the past year? Perhaps. But what if…? Yep, it’s those dang what-ifs that grind my purging to a halt….
June Is National Dairy Month
Ice cream! Yogurt! Milk! Cheese! Yum! I love me some dairy. I also love me some dairy cows. They are just so darn cute! I have kissed a cow on the nose, but that’s just me. Luella, a very curious little girl from the picture book Kiss the Cow! by Phyllis Root simply refuses to…