Author: erintaylorgreen

  • Bringing Back Snail Mail

    Bringing Back Snail Mail

    I love writing letters, I love mailing letters, and I love receiving letters.  Maybe it’s because my top two love languages are gifts and words of affirmation, but I just love everything about it, the magic of the whole postal system.  Write something, as long or as short as you want to, stick a stamp on…

  • Starting a Classroom: Book Recommendations

    Starting a Classroom: Book Recommendations

    Soon enough, I will have a classroom of my own.  I only have a month left of student teaching, and will hopefully have a job secured soon after that.  Looking ahead to my own classroom and teaching career, there is a lot to do to prepare. This week, I began a “book recommendation binder,” in which…

  • Conflict in Literature

    Today in ELA I taught a fun and successful lesson on the 4 types of conflict found in literature: man v. man, man v. self, man v. nature, and man v. society. I opened the lesson with a read aloud of two of my favorite story books, Spoon, and It’s a Book. Spoon is an adorable story and…

  • Ecosystem Mobiles and Conversation Cards

    This past week in science, I led our students in the construction of ecosystem mobiles.  We were learning interdependency- the way living and non-living things interact within an ecosystem.  I front loaded the kids with a lot of information on the first day, using these notes from Teachers Pay Teachers.  They spent two days working on…