Confessions of a

Modern Day [ex]

Substitute Teacher

Once, when I was teaching grade 8 ELA I had a bunch of students who really, really, REALLY disliked writing... but they had an extra ELA pe...

I was in a grade 1/2 classroom recently that had written a very impressive (for that grade level) book about their community and it got me ...

Have you heard of Storyathon ? It's a free online event where students are encouraged to write stories that are exactly 100 words l...

I was in a grade 3 classroom a while ago and had the opportunity to co-teach a lesson with another teacher (which pretty much meant she led...

A while ago I was in an early years classroom that was doing a project on Scaredy Squirrel First, I'm assuming they read some Scar...

When one of the teachers that I go in for regularly asks me to plan an art lesson I normally do not hesitate to do so (dare I say it's ...

I was in a grade 1 classroom (a year ago now) and I found all these interesting things they had done with polar bears First thing I not...

You may have heard that The Bombers are Grey Cup champions this year (and for my readers outside of Canada the Grey Cup is Canada's Sup...

Here is a way to get students to summarize what they've read that I saw a while ago: The teacher called it CSIW (Colour, Symbol,...

A while ago I was subbing in a class that was making book trailers. This was back when I was doing a lot of subbing in the school with ...

I saw this being used in a grade 1 classroom a while ago: my story parts Students used it to tell me their story (I'm sure t...

I've talked about this before but I think it's worth another mention as I've seen it twice now recently. One teacher had l...

A while ago on my post about what we all need to know about Reddit  I briefly talked about fake news. This got me thinking... this could ...

If you're like me you will remember creating your own books when you attended school using paper and pencil crayons but it seems those ...

I was in a classroom this past year where the teacher had her students writing a summary paragraph and her way of writing it was different ...

I know this is a long post folks but make sure you at least scroll down to the bottom to look into how you can get your own free Calm app s...

I know it might still be early to talk about back to school but I found a cute little writing activity for you to do with your students (an...

It's official everyone... we're on summer vacation over here!! And... on my last week of school I worked on 4 different days!.....

A little while ago I posted this picture Inspirational Classroom Quotes And said that I had noticed that the teacher changes the...

I can't take credit for coming up with this idea but I also couldn't figure out where I found the idea originally (if you search on...