Paula's Primary Classroom

This week a friend mentioned how painful it is to do spelling homework with her daughter.  She's tried a lot of things: writing the word...

Do you remember reading Aesop's fables as a child?  I do!  There are some that almost everyone is familiar with, like The Tortoise an...

What do you remember about your earliest years of school?  Stop for a moment, close your eyes, and think, what do you remember? I rememb...

Almost everyone has heard of summer slide, the loss of skills so many students experience during the long break from school.  Skills tha...

Until now, all my blog posts here have focused on teaching young children, on materials and ideas that have worked in my own classrooms, a...