The Reading Workshop

Dear Readers, Please give me a hand. I have been publishing this blog for about eight months now. Yesterday was a great day - the blog p...

Well, after a million and a half snow days, today we paid the price. Yes, we're in school on Saturday. And it feels different. For so...

Are you an active reader? Or do you snooze along? Do you "dog it?" Have a listen as a fourth grade student explains his view on h...

DARE class began today. Students are instructed by Deputy Dale Thomas, the Pickaway County Sheriff Department's 2007 Deputy of the Ye...

Call your friends! Call your classmates! Text your boo! Get the word out! C'mon, smarty pants, amaze me. I know I have some of the m...

OK, the last one was just too easy. Maybe this will be a little more of a challenge. Washington D.C. is not the only place for a vacation. ...

Back by popular demand, the ever popular, Where am I ? I thought about offering a prize of a dollar to the first person to correctly guess, ...

As Freak said in Freak the Mighty , "spring has sprung, and so are we." We are out of school for four days, from March 21-24. An...

Today we took a practice run at the Ohio Sixth Grade Achievement Test. We tried to make today as similar to the actual test as was possible...

I know you have read a book this year that is the best book you have ever read. So, tell us about it. What made it great? Why is it your ...

Well, we are out of here at 1:15 today (Friday). Once again, Ohio's weather has attacked us. At least we got in enough time to count f...

We had a primary election today at Laurelville Elementary in our language arts classes. We only voted on the two democratic candidates, due...

Today we are focusing on the HOT SPOT of an article. This idea was adapted from Ralph Fletcher's Writing Workshop, the Essentia...

Last summer, my wife, Laura participated on a Relay for Life team with her coworkers at Pickaway Family Job and Family Services . I went i...

In Mrs. Griffey's social studies class, students studied, researched, and then wrote essays about Mesopotamia. Students had to follow t...

Mrs. Griffey has been studying Mesopotamia in her sixth grade social studies classes at Laurelville. At the end of the unit, students had ...

Everybody loves to get a letter, even teachers. Our latest projects is one of my favorites because I get a lot of letters, and I get to rea...

The latest read aloud is the favorite of every class, every year-- Freak the Mighty , written by Rodman Philbrick. This is the story of Max...

On February 4-6 I attended the Etech Ohio 2008 Conference in Columbus, Ohio at the Convention Center. This annual event features 300 sessi...

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