Each year, as a child, I would spend time at the Earth Day fair in my hometown. This helped build a love for the Earth and celebrating Earth Day. There was something about going to the fairs and learning about how to save the earth, how to plant and care for certain plants, how to […]

If you would have asked me a couple years ago if I wanted Salmon for dinner, I would have given you a face. Yes, I know, I live in Seattle, how could I not like Salmon? I heard that question time and time again. Whenever we went anywhere, I always had the other option, not […]

1. Chicken Pot, YUM! One of the things I’ve never made, but always wanted to, is chicken pot pie! I finally found the energy this week to try out my hand at this task. I wish I would have made it sooner if I knew it would turn out this amazing! We pretty much had […]

Those lucky little leprechauns will be coming around in a few short days! How do you celebrate in your classroom? My ELL students were given a choice this time around: Narrative or Informational. They decided they wanted to work on informational writing and so I began to prep for their Leprechaun learning this week. Although […]

20 Minutes is really all you need, I promise you. These pork chops are seriously amazing. The aroma alone is worth cooking it for dinner, let alone the taste and overall ease of the recipe. Jonathan was the one who originally thought of this tasty treat (see, I do give you credit, J!) and so […]

Groundhogs Day is right around the corner, and I just began to think of all the ways we could write about them in my ELL classroom. With a variety of levels, languages, and grade levels, I wanted to come up with a couple of different ways my students can write and learn about groundhogs while […]