Muslim Woman in Amman

          I just finished reading  Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits   by Donalyn Miller, and loved it. I picked it up at the library hoping it will help me improve my students reading habits. I was so inspired by a lot of what she wrote that I have big plans for next year. Not only did it make me want to be a better reading teacher but also a better reader myself.     I plan on implementing her ideas as much as I can next year. I love her forms at the end of the book and will  probably  use a lot of them. Her ideas about creating a  Graffiti  wall for favorite lines from a book was inspiring, I intend on creating one in my classroom next year. I loved her idea of book commercials too. I think I will have the students do those as well, and the best commercial gets an  honorable  mention on the classroom website. I hope next year to encourage my...

This summer besides doing what I can to plan for next year I have taken on a tutoring job. I am helping a a 3rd grade girl who is falling behind in her Math. I had to go back to basics with her and go over place value. I bought a Math workbook from B&N but it didn't have enough practice for her. I needed more questions so I created some place value worksheets to help her. She did real well with them so I decided to post them to my TPT account. If your interested click on the image below to go to my store and check them out. Here is a sample page as a gift.