The Reading Workshop

Part of being a successful reader of nonfiction means understanding the important information. This week, we looked at reading from the oth...

Reading is important for so many reasons. But, what do sixth graders think? And, what do their parents and grandparents think? Although I...

Not all words are created equal. Some words carry a heavier weight to the reader who is tuned in to using all possible means for comprehens...

Nothing replaces reading to get the meaning, but there are a lot of other clues if you know where to search. Using Scholastic News , we fo...

What is important? What should we highlight? What are the W's? The students worked hard to drag the meaning out of an article, and he...

Learning to read is the main focus throughout elementary school. However, the style of reading must change as students enter Jr. High Schoo...

Here are a few of the outstanding Clerihew poems Mrs. Cartee and Mr.T I once had teacher named Cartee I thought she was married to Mr.T so I...

Writing Workshop will focus on poetry for the next two weeks. We began working with free verse poems. Students listed topics they were in...

The Laurelville Reading Board is back up, and ready for comments. This is a place where you can comment about books. I have started out w...

One of the best ways to improve writing is to read aloud your essay. ATandT Research Labs has a program that will read aloud for you. The...

We did a Letterman style Top 10 of the reasons students are most thankful for Thanksgiving Break. Here is a compilation of the Top 10 Reaso...

One of our latest projects in Writing Workshop is to write a thank you letter to someone in your life that has made your life better. Stude...

We received the nicest thank you letter from a fourth grade student after we co-wrote the answer to a question using a book that Mrs. Wolfe ...

Mrs. Roe's third grade class is starting to use Study Island. For their first experience, they came up to sixth grade for some help. T...

FYI November 20 Parent Teacher Conferences 4:00-7:30 November 21-26 No School--Thanksgiving Break November 28-29 Author Sandra J. P...

Honor Roll Stars! Today we had the Awards Assembly for the 1st nine weeks. Congratulations to all of the students that receiv...

One of the greatest traditions at Laurelville Elementary is the Halloween Parade. The Logan Elm High School and Jr. High bands come and lea...

Today, the sixth graders were the teachers in Writing Workshop. Mrs. Wolfe's fourth grade language arts class came up to our room to co...

We are back from break and students are working hard to finish up writing projects before the end of the 1st nine weeks. Projects due inclu...

The Pumpkin Show, The Pu mpkin Show, My oh my, I love it so, So take my hand and off we'll go Let's all go to the Pumpkin Show Ted L...