Need some leaf activities for fall? No problem! We have you covered. (Get it? Covered in leaves!) The best thing for you to do is to click this link right HERE. You’ll notice that there are 1135 leaf ideas. So look to left of your screen and narrow your search by grade level. If you’re…
It’s official. Fall is here. With just a few days remaining in September, I’m feeling the pull of pumpkins. This funny orange fruit (yes, a pumpkin is a fruit) is one of my favorite signs of fall. Little pumpkins, big pumpkins, round pumpkins, and not-so-round pumpkins—I love ’em all. Check out these pumpkins decorated…
Scarecrows creep me out. I love fall, so it’s a “good creepy” and not a “bad creepy.” But there’s just something about a scarecrow standing out in a field with its ragged clothes and blank face that gives me the shivers. My opinions are the product of way too many horror movies. Do you know…
When I have difficulty waking up in the morning, I will usually lay in bed and check out Facebook on my phone. It’s an enormous phone, and its piercing light generally wakes me up a little. Anyhoodle, this morning, one of the first status updates I noticed was a gripe about fall coming. “The earth…
So I tend to get songs stuck in my head, and once there, they cycle around and around until I want to scream. Lately, the song featured in my head is “What Does the Fox Say?” by Ylvis. I like the song, but it’s ridiculously catchy. A friend of mine forced it out of my…
In the time of wide lapels, enormous cars, and disco music that we fondly call the 1970s, going to school on Halloween without wearing your costume was about the biggest faux pas a kid could commit. And the only night more exciting than Halloween was the night before Halloween, which we called Mischief Night—an evening…
Stop and think for a moment about what makes your job easier as a teacher. There are some things you can control, but there are plenty you cannot. And so you are left trying to do your best with the tools you are given. This got me thinking about all the teachers who stop me…