School's Out For the Summer...!!

My Blue, Yellow and Silver Classroom....

closing up for the summer! See you next year!

This is where I post students to the Silver Club (20 books) and Gold Club (40 books) this goes along with my green response folders. My students LOVE to make it to Silver Club!

Multiplication Array City

Array City!!

This cute project we did for Multiplication Arrays and Open House. I LOVE how the neon colors stand out on the black buildings! The students were so creative with their buildings and windows. I precut the neon squares and gave each student a black rectangle but the students really made these their own!

Historical American Hero Project 3rd Grade 2nd year!

Wow, I love how many views this project has gotten and what great feedback we got from everyone who was a part of this project!!  Have you tried it? What have you done for heros?

Here are a few more pictures because it always gets better the 2nd time...

Moving Back To 3rd!

Back To 3rd! 




With a little help from SchoolGirlStyle!  OK so my decorating skills need some help and I'm sure Melannie of Schoolgirlstyle is  little embarrassed that this is my result so far! She has THE most AMAZING ideas for the cutest classrooms! You just have to go check this out-- SchoolGirlStyle!!

Aren't you in LOVE?!

The adorable lanterns are from her and also a few items you can't see. My favorite for this year are these cute clothes pins! I have added on by stealing this pushpin idea from my old teammate! A little hot glue and you have a perfect way to hang things up! We use reading and writing workshop - so that means charts, charts, and more charts that need to be changed. So this is much cuter than binder clips, but works just as well!

3rd Grade

I decided to start this blog this year - as a 4th grade teacher. But my love is really in 3rd grade. I just wanted to share some of my favorite memories of 3rd grade and my amazing 3rd grade team! 


My 2nd classroom in 3rd grade but my favorite layout!

My very 1st class!! 

My 1st class! When class sizes were only 20! 

Fall Trees Art Project

My favorite FALL TREES art project!! I LOVE how these turn out every year... ! Fall isn't really something we see here on our coast so it's a great project for my northern CA kiddos.